College Composition and Communication Sep 2005

Infrastructure and Composing: The When of New-Media Writing

Dànielle Nicole DeVoss ; Ellen Cushman ; Jeffrey T. Grabill

Abstract

New-media writing exerts pressure in ways that writing instruction typically has not. In this article, we map the infrastructural dynamics that support—or disrupt—newmedia writing instruction, drawing from a multimedia writing course taught at our institution. An infrastructural framework provides a robust tool for writing teachers to navigate and negotiate the institutional complexities that shape new-media writing and offers composers a path through which to navigate the systems within and across which they work. Further, an infrastructural framework focused on the when of newmedia composing creates space for reflection and change within institutional structures and networks.

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College Composition and Communication
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2005-09-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc20054011
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