Table of Contents Foreword; Cynthia L. Selfe & Gail E. Hawisher Introduction: Rhetoric/Composition/Play; Richard Colby, Matthew S. S. Johnson &Rebekah Shultz Colby PART I: PLAY 1. The Game of Facebook and the End(s) of Writing Pedagogy; John Alberti 2. The Pencil-Shaped Joystick: A Synoptic History of Text in Digital Games; Nate Garrelts 3. Who are You Here?: The Avatar and the Other in Video game Avatars; Katherine Warren 4. Developing and Extending Gaming Pedagogy: Designing a Course as Game; Justin Hodgson PART II: COMPOSITION 5. On Second Thought...; Mark Mullen 6. Ludic Snags; Matthew S. S. Johnson & Richard Colby 7. Metaphor, Writer's Block, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Writing Process; Benjamin Miller 8. Drag and Drop: Teaching Our Students Things We Don't Already Know; Danielle LaVaque-Manty 9. Gender and Gaming in a First-Year Writing Class; Rebekah Shultz Colby PART III: RHETORIC 10. Exploitationware; Ian Bogost 11. Techne as Play: Three Interstices; James Schirmer 12. What Happens in Goldshire Stays in Goldshire: Rhetorics of Queer Sexualities, Roleplaying, and Fandom in World of Warcraft; Lee Sherlock 13. Grammar Interventions in Gaming Forums: Intersections of Academic and Non-Academic Standards; Larry Beason 14. Mr. Moo's First RPG: Rules, Discussion and the Instructional Implications of Collective Intelligence on the Open Web; Trevor Owens Afterword; Debra Journet