College Composition and Communication Jun 2025

Using Eye Tracking as a Peer Review Tool for Visual and Digital Compositions

Kathryn Lambrecht

Abstract

The majority of what we compose, we compose for others. Because audience impact is central to the success of writing and designing, peer review tests how our compositions work in the world. Accordingly, we have built decades of scholarship establishing best practices for sharing our work with others, especially as new technologies emerge. This article argues for the introduction of eye tracking as a tool that can supplement peer review, offering an expansion of what counts as feedback that fosters greater access and agency for students throughout the writing process. The method for incorporating eye tracking to expand traditional peer review modalities moves students from passive research subjects to active users of eye-tracking data. In doing so, students can examine how audiences experience their work, helping to frame revisions of their multimodal compositions and consider what story they most want to tell.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2025-06-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc2025764542
Open Access
Closed
Topics
multimodality multilingual writers revision

Citation Context

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