Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies

The disciplinary triad of open-access, multimodality, and writing center studies presents a timely, critical lens for discussing academic publishing in a moment of crucibilic change, where rapid technological advancements force scholars and institutions to question what is produced and "counts" as academic writing.

Using historiographic, quantitative, and qualitative analysis, Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies sees writing center scholarship as a microcosm of many of the larger issues at play in the contemporary academic publishing landscape. This case study approach reveals the complex, imbricated ways that questions about publishing manifest both within the content of journals, and as related to academics' perceptions as signifiers of disciplinary visibility, identity, and transformation.

More than just reaffirming the conventional wisdom about these changes in publishing--that these shifts are happening and we do not always know how to pinpoint them--Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies suggests that scholars in all fields, compositionists, and writing center practitioners be conscious of the ways they are complicit in maintaining barriers to accessibility and innovation.

Chapter 5 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Triada disciplinara a accesului deschis, multimodalitatii si studiilor centrului de scriere prezinta o lentila critica in timp util pentru a discuta publicarea academica intr-un moment de schimbare crucibilica, in care progresele tehnologice rapide obliga oamenii de stiinta si institutiile sa puna la indoiala ceea ce este produs si „conteaza” ca fiind academic Utilizand analize istoriografice, cantitative si calitative, Open-Access, Multimodality si Writing Center Studies considera ca bursele centrului de scriere sunt un microcosmos al multora dintre problemele mai mari in joc in peisajul publicului academic contemporan.