College Composition and Communication Feb 2024

Spatial Affordances as a Tool for Assessing Pedagogical Writing Spaces

Kara Poe Alexander

Abstract

I propose spatial affordances as a tool for assessing pedagogical writing spaces such as writing centers. I outline a heuristic I used to evaluate the opportunities and limitations of two spaces and emphasize its adaptability to other learning spaces. Spatial affordances are useful because they underscore how place/space/location structures and facilitates writing practice.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2024-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc2024753585
Open Access
Closed
Topics
writing centers multimodality

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