In this first volume in a new series, Bazerman (education, U. of California at Santa Barbara) writes of the radical basics of writing which synchronizes with skill to produce a rhetoric of both seeking and writing. He examines how knowing where you are and when you are produces the intertextuality and social factors of texts, and how changing the landscape can reveal emergent motives, situations, and forms. He then shows how textual strategies create a new process of forming meaning, leading to a new understanding of both meanings and representations. Annotation 2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)