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2018 · Fairfax, Virginia

Gaming and First-Year Composition

Session A.7 · Panel · Fenwick 1014A

RoleName as printedAffiliation as printedPaper
Presenter Kenton Howard Using Video Games to Teach and Assess Audience and Revision in First-Year Composition
Presenter Greyson Sanders Harnessing Video Game Rhetoric
Presenter Philip Choong The Game is Afoot: Learning to Play the Life of the Mind
Presenter Sami Atassi The Game is Afoot: Learning to Play the Life of the Mind
Presenter tance in a composition course. Kenton Howard shows a Composition I module he creat ed based on the video game Organ Trail, a “retro zombie survival game”; Grayson Sanders explores the possibil ities of video games as rhetoric, focusing on the “magic circle” of play; and Philip Choong and Sami Atassi de scribe their use of the social deduction game The Resis

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Cite as: Computers and Writing Conference. “Gaming and First-Year Composition.” 2018 Conference Program, Fairfax, Virginia, session A.7. Via Computers and Writing Program Reader, November 03, 2026.