The idea for Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies began at the 2012 Computers and Writing Conference (http://siteslab.org/cwcon/2012/). The conference theme of architextures got us thinking about the ways in which physical and virtual architecture—and the processes of architecting—shape and are shaped by the creation, distribution, and reception of texts. At the conference, we both attended a hands-on session Saturday afternoon in Tompkins Hall on the North Carolina State University campus, and a conversation immediately after the session led us to see the value of bringing together multiple voices on how writing instructors propose, design, defend, and use the…
Author: Eric James Stephens
Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Jim Purdy
Eric is a Ph.D. student in the Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) program at Clemson University. In addition to pedagogy, his research interests include issues of social justice, schizoanalysis, and big data to better understand power relationships between incarcerated people and society.