Just For Fun: Writing and Literacy Learning as Forms of Play

Computers and Composition

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 323-340

  Sheridan, David Michael ^a   Hart Davidson, William ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Games; Instructional technology; Literacy; Rhetoric; Textual circulation; Textual economy; Writing pedagogy

Indexed keywords

EID: 48649092391     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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