In this blog carnival, we, writing center personnel, center on how emerging digital technologies have been impacting the writing center world. Therefore, we invited reflections from writing center tutors and administrators across geographical, linguistic, and cultural contexts to explore how they think and imagine the connections between digital literacy, multimodal composition, and writing centers (see the full CFP here.). What resulted is seven unique yet interconnected blog posts that serve as starting points for current and prospective writing center professionals and literacy advocates to collectively think about ways the interrelatedness of digital literacies and writing center studies could evolve the…
Author: Saurabh Anand
Saurabh Anand, Sarah Fischer
Saurabh Anand is a Rhetoric and Composition Studies Ph.D. student and an Asistant Writing Center director at the University of Georgia.
Across global Rhetoric and Composition Studies teaching and professional communities and their allied fields, the impact of digitalization and multimodal literacy is undeniable (Bhutoria, 2022; Nazari, 2021; Sevnarayan & Potter, 2024). This influence has significantly shaped writing program pedagogies and theories (Fyfe, 2023; Graham, 2023; Mohammed, 2023); the writing center is no exception (Buck & Botvin, 2024; Essid, 2023). Scholars have highlighted how digital transformation, including AI and online teaching, has sparked reflective discussions among directors and writing center tutors. This literacy amalgamation has led tutors and administrators to adapt their philosophies and tutoring strategies, empowering writers and fostering community…
My name is Saurabh Anand. I was born in 1992. It was one of the initial years when many postcolonial countries wentthrough “Globalization,” “Privatization,” and “Liberalization,” including India. Delhi, my birth city, and other major cities became the hub of technology, software, and hardware exports. It’d be an understatement to say right from the beginning of my childhood, computers, AKA technology, were all around me. My aunt worked as a software engineer for a company called Samtel India . It was one of the premier hardware and software companies of that time. Her company gave her a home computer (we…