ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) like World of Warcraft (WoW) encourage writing practices that are applicable to professional workspaces. It explores the possibilities of using WoW as a space for reimagining and supplementing traditional technical and professional writing pedagogy. The goal-oriented, reward-driven, and collaborative conditions of MMORPGs like WoW teach students compositional practices that mirror academic and professional expectations and outcomes for technical writing. In addition to embedding students in a diverse set of compositional protocol, we also had students shadow high-level players who occupy a position of leadership within WoW's community. Many of WoW's high-end raiding guilds demand that players applying for guild membership submit a form of documentation similar in structure and design to a professional job application packet. According to most WoW players, guild membership shapes and frames a large part of players' social experiences of the game, including their most important in-game relationships.
