A Framework For Understanding Academic Writing Connections in Fandom Spaces

This poster session presents a framework for understanding academic writing connections within fandom spaces when coupled with the use commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) videogames. When students engage in writing in fandom spaces they often do not see the connections with their school-based writing practices or the acquisition of valuable twenty-first century skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, and leadership which we have deemed crucial to investigating adolescents’ complex meaning-making and writing development. We posit that, when examined within the Game-Based Writing Framework, students (and teachers) will more readily see connections between literacy practices at home and in school.