Unlimited Players provides writing center scholars with new approaches to engaging with multimodality in the writing center through the lenses of games, play, and digital literacies. Considering how game scholarship can productively deepen existing writing center conversations regarding the role of creativity, play, and engagement, this book helps practitioners approach a variety of practices, such as starting new writing centers, engaging tutors and writers, developing tutor education programs, developing new ways to approach multimodal and digital compositions brought to the writing center, and engaging with ongoing scholarly conversations in the field.
The collection opens with theoretically driven chapters that approach writing center work through the lens of games and play. These chapters cover a range of topics, including considerations of identity, empathy, and power; productive language play during tutoring sessions; and writing center heuristics. The last section of the book includes games, written in the form of tabletop game directions, that directors can use for staff development or tutors can play with writers to help them develop their skills and practices.
No other text offers a theoretical and practical approach to theorizing and using games in the writing center. Unlimited Players provides a new perspective on the long-standing challenges facing writing center scholars and offers insight into the complex questions raised in issues of multimodality, emerging technologies, tutor education, identity construction, and many more. It will be significant to writing center directors and administrators and those who teach tutor training courses.
Author(s): Holly Ryan, Stephanie Vie
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 295
City: Logan
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Games? Toward a Theory of Gameful Writing Center Pedagogy | Stephanie Vie and Holly Ryan
Part 1. Key Concepts, Terms, and Connections
1. Paidia-gogy: Playing with Noise in the Writing Center | Elliott Freeman
2. Complicating Game and Play Metaphors: The Potential for Game Heuristics in the Writing Center | Neil Baird and Christopher L. Morrow
3. The Binding of Process: Bringing Composition, Writing Centers, and Games Together | Jason Custer
4. Ready Writer Two: Making Writing Multiplayer | Elizabeth Caravella and Veronica Garrison-Joyner
Part 2. Applications of Games to the Writing Center
5. Leveling Up with Emergent Tutoring: Exploring the Ludus and Paidia of Writing, Tutoring, and Augmented Reality | Brenta Blevins and Lindsay A. Sabatino
6. The Writing Consultation as Fantasy Role-Playing Game | Christopher LeCluyse
7. Inscribing the Magic Circle in/on/of the Writing Center | Kevin J. Rutherford and Elizabeth Saur
8. RPGs, Identity, and Writing Centers: Layering Realities in the Tutoring Center | Thomas “Buddy” Shay and Heather Shay
9. The Quest for Intersectional Awareness: Educating Tutors through Gaming Ethnography | Jessica Clements
10. I Turned My Tutor Class into an RPG: A Pilot Study | Jamie Henthorn
Part 3. Staff and Writing Center Education Games
11. Writing Center Snakes and Ladders | Nathalie Singh-Corcoran and Holly Ryan
12. Active Listening Uno | Stacey Hoffer
13. Heads Up! Asking Questions and Building Vocabulary | Stacey Hoffer
14. And Now Presenting: Marketing Writing Center Identities | Rachael Zeleny
15. Escape the Space: Building Better Communication with Peers through Problem-Solving Situations | Christina Mastroeni, Malcolm Evans, and Richonda Fegins
16. Level Up | Alyssa Noch
17. Writing and Role Playing | Mitchell Mulroy
18. Writing on the Wall | Elysse T. Meredith and Miriam E. Laufer
19. One-Word Proverbs | Katie Levin
20. Source Style Scramble | Brennan Thomas, Molly Fischer, and Jodi Kutzner
Index
About the Authors
