What does it mean to write across? After all, every act of writing is an act of crossing. Writing is a medium (print, screens, symbols, images)—literally, an in-betweenness that must be crossed to connect authors to audiences. Yet from another perspective, writing is the crosser; it moves across, blends, and connects persons, meanings, identities, languages, locations, temporalities, media, and purposes.
My dissertation takes up concepts of intersections and crossing points in composition studies by empirically investigating three sites: expert writers composing academic digital media projects; international writing partnerships in a composition classroom; and technology professional development for in-service writing faculty.