Computers and CompositionPub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-12-23DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102972
Elizabeth Velasquez, Christa Teston
{"title":"UX → RX: creating a culture of curiosity about contemporary reading practices","authors":"Elizabeth Velasquez, Christa Teston","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102972","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102972","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In place of (or as a complement to) “user experience research,” we propose “reader experience research” as a technique for tracing how contemporary readers make meaning through a host of social-semiotic modes. Significantly, such modes are always already conditioned by cognitive, social, economic, and technological factors. To illustrate how reader experience research can account for such factors, we describe the emergence of our institution’s Reader Experience Lab. We illustrate through three experiences how the lab (and reader experience research, in general) offers opportunities for gaining insight into how contemporary readers make meaning in and/or despite what Dan Keller terms a “culture of acceleration.”</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 102972"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145841248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Computers and CompositionPub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-12-11DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102961
Kathryn Lambrecht, Claire Lauer, Stephen Carradini, Poorva Ketkar, Danielle Storey
{"title":"Building narrative layers in virtual reality via multimodal user experience","authors":"Kathryn Lambrecht, Claire Lauer, Stephen Carradini, Poorva Ketkar, Danielle Storey","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102961","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102961","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>People working at the intersection of composition and user experience often serve as the connective material that binds content to use. In merging fundamental skills of both in multimodal UX, practitioners position themselves as essential mediators connecting technical information, storytelling, and technologies that carry impactful messages across disciplines, audiences, and contexts. Building on previous work that advocates for the power of narrative in AR/VR storytelling, we demonstrate how combining the composing strategy of narrative layering with user testing can guide the creation of inclusive, community-centered VR experiences. To illustrate the power of this capacity, we ground our analysis in the design of a Virtual Reality experience about advanced water purification, outlining a method for how narrative layering and UX testing can be woven together to address a variety of perspectives through interdisciplinary, layered storytelling. In doing so, we argue that multimodal UX is most powerful when it blends the needs of a range of audiences to build stories that communicate complex information in an inclusive and engaging way.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 102961"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145711875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Computers and CompositionPub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-12-16DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102971
Elizabeth Caravella, Rich Shivener
{"title":"Accessibility in virtual reality: A multimodal user experience framework for considering hardware, embodied, and spatial access","authors":"Elizabeth Caravella, Rich Shivener","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102971","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102971","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Virtual reality (VR) systems and other emerging technologies have transformed how professional writers and teams interact with information and navigate digital environments (Caravella, Shivener, & Narayanamoorthy, 2022; Saker & Frith, 2020; Tham, 2024). In Meta's <em>Horizons Workrooms</em>, users interact with shared virtual whiteboards, chalk, and spatial audio (Shivener & Tham, in press). In <em>BigScreenVR</em>, collaborative meetings include shared computer screens, 3D audio, and facial gestures (Shivener & Caravella, 2025). These platforms allow for the integration of visual, auditory, and spatial elements in innovative ways, pushing the boundaries of digital writing and collaboration across various points of the writing process.</div><div>Drawing on VR and UX theories, our pedagogies, and recent qualitative studies of writing in VR (Shivener & Tham, in press; Shivener & Caravella, 2025), this piece proposes three considerations that UX writing teachers must contend with <em>before and as</em> they integrate VR into a classroom: hardware, embodied, and spatial access. UX and multimodal composition teachers are well positioned to engage VR but must anticipate accessibility challenges that have complicated previous studies and pedagogies. In addition to the concerns themselves, we also outline potential example assignments and pedagogical methods for addressing these challenges. These practical guidelines inform lesson plans and experiences that are both engaging and equitable for a range of students, and provide a blueprint for teachers to include such technologies in UX classrooms in accessible ways.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 102971"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145798954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Computers and CompositionPub Date : 2026-03-01Epub Date: 2025-12-26DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102976
Zhang Kailin, Murad Abdu Saeed
{"title":"Chinese EFL learners’ engagement with ChatGPT feedback on academic writing: A case study in Malaysia","authors":"Zhang Kailin, Murad Abdu Saeed","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102976","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102976","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT are becoming increasingly integrated into English as a Foreign Language (EFL) academic writing context, learners’ engagement with AI-generated feedback remains insufficiently examined. This case study investigated how four Chinese EFL postgraduates joining a course in a Malaysian university engaged with ChatGPT feedback while revising their academic research proposals. The study triangulated screen recordings, pre- and post-revision drafts, and stimulated recall interviews. Participants displayed a range of behavioural strategies, including accepting, questioning, rejecting suggestions, annotating visually, and seeking external validation. Affective responses ranged from appreciation and curiosity to doubt and frustration, particularly when feedback appeared conflicting or imprecise. Cognitively, learners applied various strategies such as evaluating, comparing, negotiating feedback, and regulating its use. Yet, they showed differing levels of engagement, shaped by individual perceptions and writing intentions. Importantly, participants regarded ChatGPT as a tool for linguistic refinement rather than content generation. Overall, the findings revealed that learners did not passively receive feedback but interacted with it in agentive and critical ways. The study highlights the interplay among these three dimensions of engagement and the importance of individual differences when evaluating the pedagogical potential of GenAI-generated feedback in academic writing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"79 ","pages":"Article 102976"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145841247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Computers and CompositionPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-09-12DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102959
Amanda Yoshiko Shimizu , Jill Santos
{"title":"Supporting online learning for diverse elementary students: A community of inquiry approach to collaborative multimodal composing—processes, products, and perspectives","authors":"Amanda Yoshiko Shimizu , Jill Santos","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102959","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102959","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>When the pandemic forced schools online, teachers quickly adapted to meet their students' needs. Despite these efforts, U.S. educational disruptions deepened achievement disparities for students of color and low-income backgrounds. Although many schools have returned to in-person learning, online learning is expanding rapidly, highlighting the need to design it inclusively, especially for elementary-aged students—a group less understood in this context. Guided by a Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework, we first outline how a teacher-researcher partnership purposefully planned and implemented an online writing workshop to support culturally, linguistically and socio-economically diverse third-grade students to develop as a community of engaged learners. Then, we focus on the kinds of learning and interactions that occurred between students during a computer-mediated collaborative multimodal composing (MMC) project as well as their perspectives on their collaborations, learning, and final multimodal products. Findings indicate that MMC with digital tools, when implemented with instruction through a CoI framework that centers teacher, social, cognitive, and learner presence, enables students from all backgrounds to foster essential literacy and 21st-century skills. These findings establish a foundational understanding for teachers and researchers working with young, diverse learners in computer-mediated and online contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 102959"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145047857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Computers and CompositionPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-10-10DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102960
Joe Schicke , Scott Weedon
{"title":"The band feeling: getting intentional about soundwriting and sonic rhetorics","authors":"Joe Schicke , Scott Weedon","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102960","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102960","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Resonance as a theoretical construct centers materiality and relationality as rhetorically constitutive. In this paper, based on field research in spaces of digital music production, we examine the composition of resonance and the role that intention plays in the process. Through observation and interview of a musical artist and two technical collaborators, we uncover intention as emergent from creative impulse and technological mediation in pursuit of resonance. We conclude by considering implications for rhetorical theory and soundwriting praxis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 102960"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145269091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Computers and CompositionPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-11-15DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102962
Dr. Jason Tham
{"title":"Editorial: Making Space for Digital Writing","authors":"Dr. Jason Tham","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102962","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102962","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 102962"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145576327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Computers and CompositionPub Date : 2025-12-01Epub Date: 2025-09-12DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102958
Courtney Rivard , DA Hall , Stephanie Kinzinger , Doug Stark
{"title":"A Room to Play: The Infrastructure of Game Pedagogy","authors":"Courtney Rivard , DA Hall , Stephanie Kinzinger , Doug Stark","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102958","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102958","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article argues that the work of teaching writing with video games starts before the syllabus, the assignment, and the lesson plan: First, there must be an <em>infrastructure for game pedagogy</em>. Drawing on our experiences at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, we explain that various material considerations – from consoles to classroom furniture, and from grant-funding to graduate students – were necessary to build our game-based classroom, the Greenlaw Gameroom, and the Critical Game Studies Program it facilitates. Our primary aim has been to foster what we call <em>collaborative close play</em>, which is a method of game analysis that resolves the oft-cited tension between playful immersion and critical distance by turning close play into a group activity whereby students cycle between the roles of player, advisor, researcher, and notetaker. A three-day module that pairs <em>Super Mario Bros.</em> with the Iñupiaq platformer <em>Never Alone</em> demonstrates how such structured play, scaffolded by flexible furniture, digital data management, and trained instructors, enables students to analyze procedural rhetorics, cultural logics, and design ethics at scale. Virginia Woolf observed that certain material circumstances, like a room of one’s own, are necessary to write; by the same token, this article deals with some of the material obstacles a writing program must face in the process of securing “money and a room” for teaching games.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 102958"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145047858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Computers and CompositionPub Date : 2025-09-01Epub Date: 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102947
John R. Gallagher , Kyle Wagner , Jordan Canzonetta
{"title":"When collaborating turns into dishonesty: A data-driven heuristic comparing human and AI collaborators","authors":"John R. Gallagher , Kyle Wagner , Jordan Canzonetta","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102947","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102947","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With respect to AI writing technologies (AIWT), we pose three foundational questions about academic dishonesty. First, do writing instructors and students perceive differences between AI agents and human agents in classroom scenarios? Second, to what extent are writing instructor and student perceptions are aligned? Third, what types of writing scenarios are perceived as academic dishonesty? Answering these questions provides a baseline of comparison not only for future studies of AIWT collaboration but also contextualizes perceptions of human-to-human collaboration. We report on a large-scale experimental survey study that answers these questions using item response theory (IRT). Our findings demonstrate that while there are differences between AI and human agents of collaborations, writing instructors and students are generally aligned in their perceptions. Using a Rasch model, we find that academic dishonesty operates along a spectrum of textual production. Regardless of whether the collaborating agent is human or AI, the more an agent produces text, the more this collaboration is perceived as academic dishonesty. Conversely, the less text that is produced, the less this scenario is perceived as academically dishonest. In our discussion, we provide a data-driven heuristic to guide instructors and administrators.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"77 ","pages":"Article 102947"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144518675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}