{"pk":42230,"title":"Metis as a Pedagogical Framework for Approaching Alternative Writing Assessment: Embracing Neurodiversity Through Adaptation","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>In recent years, <em>metis</em>, which refers to “the rhetorical concept of cunning and adaptive intelligence” (Dolmage, 2014, p. 5) has been utilized as a framework for theorizing approaches to writing anxiety (Wood, 2020), examining adaptive literacy practices (Kamperman, 2020), and reimagining pedagogy in the rhetoric and writing classroom (Selznick, 2020). While this scholarship has done critical work positioning <em>metis</em> as a framework for challenging normative approaches to writing pedagogy, little has been written to tie this concept to alternative writing assessment itself. In this article, I offer <em>metis </em>as a pedagogical framework for conceptualizing accessible alternative writing assessment practices grounded in adaptation. I argue that using <em>metis</em> as a framework encourages writing teachers to embrace neurodiversity through flexible writing assessment tactics that center students’ nonnormative, embodied composition processes.</p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"neurodiversity"},{"word":" Metis"},{"word":" accessibility"},{"word":" Alternative Assessment"},{"word":" disability"}],"section":"Special Issue on Neurodivergence & Disability in Writing Assessment","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/081343dw","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Millie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hizer","name_suffix":"","institution":"Southeastern Louisiana University","department":"English and World Languages"}],"date_submitted":"2025-01-30T23:12:41.553000Z","date_accepted":"2026-02-19T00:42:34.290562Z","date_published":"2026-05-18T14:33:04.850772Z","render_galley":{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jwa/article/42230/galley/49364/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jwa/article/42230/galley/49364/download/"}]}