Play/Write: Digital Rhetoric, Writing, Games

Edited by Douglas Eyman and Andréa D. Davis Electracy and Transmedia Studies Series Edited by Jan Rune Holmevik and Cynthia Haynes <Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-731-0 (paperback, $34.00) 978-1-60235-732-7 (hardcover, $70.00); 978-1-60235-733-4 (PDF, $19.99); 978-1-60235-734-1 (ePub, $19.99). © 2016 by Parlor Press, with illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. 388 pages. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book Play/Write: Digital Rhetoric, Writing Games presents a wide range of approaches to digital video games as sites of composition and rhetorical performance. The chapters in Play/Write examine writing—both textual and multimodal—and rhetorical activity that takes place within games as player-game and player-player interactions, as well as external sites of writing, such as player communities, corporate-supported transmedia storytelling, walkthroughs, cheats, and documentation. The final sections of P