Search strategies for writing studies; or, planning for a future that may never arrive / Sidney I. Dobrin and Kyle Jensen -- Abductive historiography: this is a (feminist) test / Jessica Enoch -- A method for getting carried away: Kentucky's calling / Jenny Rice -- The writing wager: gambling, risk, and the future of writing / Brooke Rollins -- Writing(,) hypothetically / Kevin J. Porter -- Archival subjects and the violence of writing / Michael Bernard-Donals -- Writing, textual forgery, and the discourse of possibilities / Ron Fortune -- Abduction, writing, digital humanities / Collin Brooke -- Craft technology: social networked delivery / Jeff Rice -- Metaphors for the future: how to train the riparian subjects of "writing studies / Jodie Nicotra -- Intoning writing / Matthew Heard -- Writing the virus / John Muckelbauer -- Abducted by nada: ego death, open source, and the importance of doing nothing in the infoquake / Richard M. Doyle.
Summary:
"This collection is organized around the concept of abduction, a logical operation introduced by Charles Sanders Peirce that explains how new ideas are formed in response to an uncertain future. Responding to this uncertain future with rigor and insight, each essay imagines new methods, concepts, and perspectives that extend writing studies research into startling new terrain. To appeal to a wide range of audiences, the essays work within foundational areas in rhetoric and composition research such as space, time, archive, networks, inscription, and life. Some of the essays take familiar concepts such as historiography, the writing subject, and tone and use abduction to chart new paths forward. Others use abduction to identify areas within writing studies such as futural writing, the calling of place, and risk that require more sustained attention. Taken together, these essays expose the manifold pathways that writing studies research may pursue. Each of the twelve essays that comprise this collection sparks new insights about the phenomenon of writing. A must-read for rhetoric and composition scholars and students, Abducting Writing Studies is sure to foster vibrant discussions about what is possible in writing research and instruction." -- Publisher's description.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.