Moving Toward a Conceptualization of Writing-as-Making

• In Event: 28.091 - Sheraton Roundtable Session Two - Grand Centre
  In Roundtable Session: 28.091-9 - Making and Materiality in Literacy Practice and Method

Abstract

A growing number of writing educators--for example, many affiliated with the National Writing Project (NWP) & Digital Media Lab (DML)--have begun to consider what learning through making might mean for teaching writing.This paper begins conceptualizing core principles of writing-as-making by completing an integrative review of contemporary writing research from the last ten years (2015-2018) that surfaces how these principles are already present (or not) in writing scholarship and pedagogy. Drawing from such literature on making, we suggest four core principles of making that resonate with writing. Both writing and making: are (1-2) purposeful and audience-oriented rhetorical endeavors; (3) utilize multiple semiotic tools in rhetorically strategic ways; (4) engage production and creation processes.

Authors

• Becca Woodard, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Andrea Vaughan, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Virginia Killian Lund, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Rachael Gruen, University of Illinois at Chicago