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    Wrap Up: Makerspaces and Composition Practices Blog Carnival

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    By Paula M Miller on April 20, 2016 Blog Carnival 8

    Sheridan notes that “[c]omposers are embedded within the networks of tools, raw materials, spaces, media, and people; these networks profoundly shape rhetorical practices.” In the Makerspaces and Composition Practices blog carnival, we’ve seen scholars explore all the ways that material objects shape rhetorical composing, from makerspaces from a variety of angles, from [example]to [example]to [example]. We also had a great conversation on Twitter.

    Zines in the making, University of Maryland, 2012
    Zines in the making, University of Maryland, 2012

    If you missed any of the posts in the series, here’s the full list of contributions in the series:

    • “Compositional Craft: Zine Workshops as Pop-Up Makerspaces” by Melissa Rogers
    • “Part 1: A Maker Mentality Toward Writing” & “Part 2: Doorknob Hanger: A Case Study in Making Rhetoric” by David Sheridan
    • “A Maker Project: Writing about Material Culture” by Sonia Arellano
    • “Utlilizing the Library Makerspace for Critical Invention in Intro to Science, Technology, and Society” by J.J. Sylvia IV
    • “What Can We Learn about Writing and Rhetoric from a Makerspace?” by Ann Shivers-McNair
    • “Before the Digital: What a History can Teach Educators about Makerspaces, Literacy and Rhetoric” by Krysten Manke
    • “Remaking Optophones: an Exercise in Maintenance Studies” by Tiffany Chan, Victoria Murawski, and Jentery Sayers
    • “Writing is Making: Maker Culture and Embodied Learning in the Composition Classroom” by Maggie Melo
    • “Making Across the Curriculum: DIY Culture, Makerspaces, and New Modes of Composition” by Jessica Elam-Handloff
    • “Precarious Deliberation and Failing Faster: The Value of Glitch in Mutlimodal Public Writing Assignments” by Stephanie Larson

    How does making inform your writing practice? Talk back in the comments?

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    • Paula M Miller
      Paula M Miller

      Paula is a PhD graduate fellow at The Ohio State University studying rhetoric, composition, and literacy. Her research interests lie at the intersection of writing centers and multiliteracies. You can visit her online at paula-miller.com

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