Multimodal and embodied approaches to writing for access and inclusion - Arlene Archer.

Normative academic writing often assumes a neutral, disembodied writer who is focused on product rather than process. Anchored in understandings of learning and writing as multimodal and embodied, this talk explores writing centre practices for access and inclusion in higher education. A multimodal approach examines how writing is re-configured in different media, focusing on the materiality of the media, the mobility of the media, the imagined audiences, the spaces and places of writing. Arlene will investigate ways of using a range of modes and embodied approaches to develop writing with multilingual and diverse students. Specifically, she will look at how embodied practice manifests in different forms of engagement and representational modes in a writing centre context. Here, the materiality and visual nature of writing needs to be considered alongside its cognitive dimensions.