Description: 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.
Brief description: Kyle Jensen is an associate professor of English at the University of North Texas. He is the author of Reimagining Process: Online Writing Archives and the Future of Writing Studies and has published essays in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, JAC, and Rhetoric Review.
Review Quotes: "Abducting Writing Studies will prove to be a highly significant work because of the originality and timeliness of issues, controversies, and themes addressed by the contributors."--Frank Farmer, author, After the Public Turn: Composition, Counterpublics, and the Citizen Bricoleur
"This book is a rich provocation to rethink issues such as 'time, ' 'space, ' and 'inscription' in order to envision and to instantiate a new future for writing studies."--Michelle Ballif, editor, Theorizing Histories of Rhetoric