Reimagining Process

"Offering a what-centered approach to writing, Jensen makes a persuasive and compelling case for how our study and teaching of writing have been limited by how-centered process approaches (focused on literate development, reflection, and traditional portfolios) and describing the possibilities opened up by the use of online archives, especially in helping students develop a more expansive (and materially grounded) understanding of what writing is and does. This book makes a valuable contribution to a materialist perspective on writing."--Anis Bawarshi, University of Washington

"Reimagining Process will shift the way the field of rhetoric and composition studies understands the term 'process.' As a 'how-centered' approach, process tends to replicate the dynamic of the teacher-centered classroom while hiding it; instead, if we see process as a 'what-centered' approach, we have the potential to see process as a material dynamic that can be made visible most clearly in the virtual archive. This is a brilliant rearticulation of the intersection between the process of writing and the archival networks that make it manifest."--Michael Bernard-Donals, Nancy Hoefs Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Jensen has given our field a courageous and important book that is sure to spark many productive acts of reimagination." --Meredith Kruse, Rhetoric Review