Drawing is Scary

Broz's article on graphic representations of literature brought out my skeptical side. I began reading through all of Broz's high praise of graphic representations and how he still cherishes his crayon drawing of Gawain the Green Knight. That seemed great for him, but I couldn't help but think, "Hey, what about the kids who cringe at the idea of drawing for an assignment?". Those would be the students like me. I know that at the heart of all the explorations into multimodality the idea is to help kids who do not learn via oral and written word as well as through other means. Though this is not the only intent of multimodality, it still seems to push the subject of English a bit farther out of the hands of those geared towards traditional means of learning the subject. I never want to isolate any student and I fear that things like graphic representations, which would instantly turn me off of an assignment, might do that for some students.
Now, this is not to say that I dislike the idea of graphic representations or multimodality. Graphic representations, when given such a strong structure, such as Broz describes, that aims students towards higher level thinking and towards better critical thinking and writing skills, are great tools. Also, multimodality has opened my eyes to a whole new and exciting world of teaching as well as confirmed many of my own aspirations. My lurking fear though still exists. I feel that the solution, though not the easy or quick one, is to offer multiple options for students or to leave room for personalization and interpretation with assignments of this nature. Multimodal assignments such as graphic representations can be great for some students, I just never want it to be the kryptonite for other students. The bottom line is well-planned teaching is very important in order to design assignments that persuade students to think and work hard rather than dissuade them.