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Andrews, Gillian – E-Learning, 2008
In a study of 195 high school students, differences by gender and socioeconomic status (SES) were found in their gaming habits and game literacy practices. Low-SES students generally preferred console video games, particularly those in the sports genre. They expressed frustration with the controls involved in long-form computer games such as those…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Video Games, Females, Gender Differences
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Vie, Stephanie – E-Learning, 2008
This article examines the common genre of the usability study in technical communication courses and proposes the incorporation of computer and video games to ensure a rhetorical focus to this genre. As games are both entertaining and educational, their use in the technical communication classroom provides a new perspective on multimodal…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Video Games, Communication Skills, College Students