Gamifying rhetoric: first-year writing in theory and practice

Tuttle, Amy Lynn

Publication

Gamifying rhetoric: first-year writing in theory and practice

Tuttle, Amy Lynn

Publisher

[Fort Worth, Tex.] : Texas Christian University,

Date

2014

Abstract

With new media composition, practice is theory is practice. That is, the processes and products of new media writing are inherently praxical. New media scholars have discussed the ways in which digital writing allows students to manipulate features, objects, and simulated worlds by using the languages of coding programming. Moreover, scholars contend that the manipulative activities made accessible through new media composition processes are not only beneficial unto themselves as they pertain to the ends of composition, but such processes also constitute the very essence (and evolution) of theories of writing and composition. Thus, through an engagement with the manipulative practices that comprise and constitute video games, new media composition has the potential to expose first-year writing students to the intersections of writing's theories and practices--to the places where theories and practices of writing converge.