While the economic sustainability of writing centers throughout California poses a unique and real problem with educational budget cuts, there remains another valid issue that requires attention: the center’s visual rhetoric. Budgets will only sustain a writing center that attracts and engages students towards a writing “self-actualization.” In this digital age, most everyone envisions the topic of “visual rhetoric” as diverse arrays of textual composition. They may not consider the visual rhetoric of the “space” in which that composition occurs nor the affects of that space on composing. In actuality, the visual rhetoric of the space of a writing center sustains the mission of the writing center by offering a visually progressive place for composition to occur, thus meriting continued financial support.
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