Composition and Big Data

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Licastro, Miller, and their excellent cohort of contributors turn the field's attention to the digital life of writing for a much needed 'collective reckoning' with the programs and systems that we use. In this timely collection, we learn that we cannot ignore how our writing is coupled to platforms that store, deliver, quantify, leverage, and profit from our everyday work. -- Jim Ridolfo, University of Kentucky This is a fantastic collection of approaches to using data analytics in writing studies. I'm particularly impressed with the breadth of applications, from using big data in the classroom to tracing the contours of the discipline. For anyone concerned about the continual encroachment of data analysis and algorithmic structures on our lives as teachers and scholars, this collection offers a foundation for understanding how to turn these tools to productive uses for our own practices, which helps us to resist and mediate big-data analyses that are antithetical to the mission of the humanities. -- Doug Eyman, George Mason University