Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games: Reshaping Theory and Practice of Writing

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction: Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
The Game of Facebook and the End(s) of Writing Pedagogy....Pages 9-23
The Pencil-Shaped Joystick: A Synoptic History of Text in Digital Games....Pages 25-32
Who Are You Here? The Avatar and the Other in Video Game Avatars....Pages 33-43
Developing and Extending Gaming Pedagogy: Designing a Course as Game....Pages 45-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
On Second Thought …....Pages 63-82
Ludic Snags....Pages 83-97
Metaphor, Writer’s Block, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Writing Process....Pages 99-111
Drag and Drop: Teaching Our Students Things We Don’t Already Know....Pages 113-122
Gender and Gaming in a First-Year Writing Class....Pages 123-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Exploitationware....Pages 139-147
Techne as Play: Three Interstices....Pages 149-160
What Happens in Goldshire Stays in Goldshire: Rhetorics of Queer Sexualities, Role-Playing, and Fandom in World of Warcraft....Pages 161-174
Grammar Interventions in Gaming Forums: Intersections of Academic and Nonacademic Standards....Pages 175-191
Mr. Moo’s First RPG: Rules, Discussion, and the Instructional Implications of Collective Intelligence on the Open Web....Pages 193-203
Back Matter....Pages 205-239