Connections between neuroscience, rhetoric, and writing : A plastic pedagogy for the digital age / by Edward J. Comstock.

First issued in paperback 2021.

Introduction -- Neuroscience and neuroideology: plasticity, flexibility, and the emotional architecture of experience -- Pedagogy breakout 1 -- When writing explodes: the relations between emotional intelligence, transference, and blockages -- Composition's correlationalisms: objects of wonder -- To care or not to care: the supposed indestructability of wonder -- Pedagogy breakout 2 -- taking the'low road' to embodied pedagogy:'tacit knowledge' and wonder in writing -- Writing pedagogy and the crises of attention: from distraction to disaffection -- Technology, intelligence, and the plasticity of writing in the new attention economy -- Pedagogy breakout 3 -- Neurophilosophy, argument theory, and the future of reason: towards an embodied public rhetoric