College Composition and Communication Jun 2022

Writing Towards Access: Collaboration and Community

Jess Libow

Abstract

In this praxis-focused article, I reflect on incorporating what disability justice activists call “collective access” into the composition classroom through a semester-long, class-wide “Accessibility Best Practices” assignment. I show how asking students to recursively address access together helped them approach writing itself as a collaborative and revisionary process.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2022-06-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc202232016
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writing pedagogy collaborative writing disability studies
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