Writing Matters: Rhetoric in Public and Private Lives

Anyone who laments the demise of print text would find a sympathetic listener in Andrea A. Lunsford. Anyone who bemoans the lack of respect for blogs, graphic novels, and other new media would find her no less understanding. Lunsford is at home in both camps because she sees beyond writing's ever-changing forms to the constancy of its power to "make space for human agency—or to radically limit such agency."

Lunsford is a celebrated scholar of rhetoric and composition, and many undergraduates...