In 1987, Linda Brodkey wrote that, “to see writing anew, to look at it from yet other vantage points, we must teach ourselves away from an image that we hove come to think of as the reality of writing. Sometimes I wonder if the very term “writing” itself is one of the things that keep us tied to more traditional realities. What might we see if we took up different terms, like “inscriptional practice,” or “literate activity,” or “semiotic performance”? What might those terms make visible? Or what about notions like “crafting,” “making” or “designing”? What new perspectives might those terms afford? How might new terms help us learn to look differently at writing? “[W]e must teach ourselves away from an image that we have come to think of as the reality of writing.”