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Drawing on what Eodice et al. describe as “personal connection” for writing students, the author invites online writing instructors to pay attention to how the concepts of “place” and “space”—as both natural/material and constructed/metaphorical—might inform our disciplinary understanding of online writing instruction.  \nIntroduction  \nA few years ago I taught my first fully online writing course. Early in the course, students participated in an activity where I asked them to share their experiences with and expectations of being in an online course. Specifically, I was interested in learning from students what factors contribute to them feeling a sense of belonging to an online course and whether the work they engaged in was meaningful to them. To this end, one of my students posted“sometimes I forget I’m in an online class!” The student went on to share that because there is no physical meeting space, they are not engaged in online courses, especially if they miss reminders for when assignments are due. This student experience seems representative of Mauk’s call for the field to pay attention to the “emerging spatial crises in academia” and the effects of this “apparent placelessness” on students (370) . Initially, I could not fathom how anyone could forget being enrolled in any course, even if there were no physical meeting room. But then I realized that this student perhaps did not feel a sense of belonging to that particular online course, a sense of belonging which is often attributed to bodies being present in some material space. I also questioned the relationship between a sense of belonging and students’ writing experiences. In other words, the student’s comment suggests a connection among experience, meaningfulness, and place, which clearly influenced how and if they participated in online courses. This likely connection made me question my own conceptualization of what it means to teach and participate in an online course and whether my course content and pedagogy fostered for students a sense of belonging and meaningful writing experiences.  \nComposition Studies 49.3 (2021): 38–55  \nFast forward some years later, and I continue to rethink my approaches to online writing instruction (OWI) and the factors that contribute to how my students experience the course.1 This has become especially complex with the global pandemic shifting most writing instruction to online spaces, a move which heightened my awareness of students’ sense of belonging and their constant experiences with technological systems that might problematically suggest a false sense of neutrality. For many students, they were neither prepared for nor oriented toward online learning; yet here we all are. Recognizing that many of my students are already “unsituated in academic space” because“academic space is not an integral part of their intellectual geography”(Mauk 369), I imagine that many students have struggled with thinking of our online class as a classroom, a complex location in and of itself. Instead, and perhaps especially because our class meets primarily asynchronously, I grew concerned that students might perceive the class as simply submitting assignments as opposed to a space where they are immersed in an online writing experience that promotes belongingness and meaningful writing with technologies that produce effects. My institution relies on Moodle as its learning management system (LMS) for teaching and learning, and Moodle is described as a “digital classroom space”(Moodle Policy). This idea ofthe LMS as a “digital classroom space” is important to how teachers then conceptualize the classroom because it informs how we teach and ho","cbCaitJ9cViypF8A","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitJ9cViypF8A","pdf",152836,18,"English","# Introduction\n## Place, belonging, and meaningful online writing\n## Reconsidering online writing instruction in pandemic contexts\n## Moodle and the digital classroom space\n## Experience, technology, and accountability","[{\"question\":\"What role do “place” and “space” play in online writing classrooms?\",\"answer\":\"They provide a critical conceptual framework for understanding how students experience online writing instruction. 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