2018/03/22 by Ashley Clayson · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · Psychology · #Discourse Analysis in Language Studies #Writing and Handwriting Education #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Embodied cognition #Materiality (auditing) #Situated #Gesture #Cognition #Focus (optics) #Socially distributed cognition #Collaborative writing #Psychology #Situated cognition #Sociology #Linguistics #Aesthetics #Computer science #Pedagogy #Art
paper · doi:10.1177/0741088317753348
openalex publication_date 2018/03/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Through a study of collaborative writing at a student advocacy nonprofit, this article explores how writers distribute their text planning across tools, artifacts, and gestures, with a particular focus on how embodied representations of texts are present in text planning. Findings indicate that these and other representations generated by the writers move through a spectrum of durability, from provisional to more persistent representations. The author argues that these findings offer useful insights into the relationships among distributed cognition, materiality, embodiment, and text planning and have implications for practitioners and students of writing. Additionally, the author recommends that scholars further investigate the ways in which embodied representations of texts are generated through lived experiences with the materials of writing.