Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games

1. Introduction: Rhetoric/Composition/Play through Video Games
Richard Colby, Matthew S. S. Johnson, Rebekah Shultz Colby

Part I. Play

2. The Game of Facebook and the End(s) of Writing Pedagogy
John Alberti

3. The Pencil-Shaped Joystick: A Synoptic History of Text in Digital Games
Nate Garrelts

4. Who Are You Here? The Avatar and the Other in Video Game Avatars
Katherine Warren

5. Developing and Extending Gaming Pedagogy: Designing a Course as Game
Justin Hodgson

Part II. Composition

6. On Second Thought …
Mark Mullen

7. Ludic Snags
Matthew S. S. Johnson, Richard Colby

8. Metaphor, Writer’s Block, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Writing Process
Benjamin Miller

9. Drag and Drop: Teaching Our Students Things We Don’t Already Know
Danielle LaVaque-Manty

10. Gender and Gaming in a First-Year Writing Class
Rebekah Shultz Colby

Part III. Rhetoric

11. Exploitationware
Ian Bogost

12. Techne as Play: Three Interstices
James Schirmer

13. What Happens in Goldshire Stays in Goldshire: Rhetorics of Queer Sexualities, Role-Playing, and Fandom in World of Warcraft
Lee Sherlock

14. Grammar Interventions in Gaming Forums: Intersections of Academic and Nonacademic Standards
Larry Beason

15. Mr. Moo’s First RPG: Rules, Discussion, and the Instructional Implications of Collective Intelligence on the Open Web
Trevor Owens

Keywords: Popular Science, Popular Science in Education, Sociology, general, Anthropology, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Teaching and Teacher Education, Media Studies