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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