This article describes how forms of IT writing might be taught in English to French technical communications students, who often have difficulty in adapting textual modes of communication to the multimodal texts needed in the workplace. The article begins by defining the term 'text', understood as a 'frame' rather than as a 'type'. It then describes the parts of the course in which students learn to combine the different modes - textual, visual, HTML - needed to produce a typical technical iText : the user's guide. In conclusion, the text is still seen as a central and relevant part of the LSP classroom, although its teaching must be adapted and enriched by the trend toward an "iTextualization" of the workplace task.