Abstract
Welcome to our chapter.
I use “our” because in some very important ways you and I will be co-constructing this text. In fact, we're already underway. You have already started, no doubt, thinking about me, your author. And I have been thinking long and hard (too long, my editors would probably say) about you, my audience. As I compose, read, and recompose the words I have set out for you to read, I am ever trying to anticipate how you will react. I am trying to write and read through your eyes as well as through my own. I am trying to assay whether your responses will match my intentions.
If some of my assumptions miss the mark about you as a reader, I hope you will nonetheless find a way to temporarily inhabit the roles and attitudes I am inviting you to try on, and in that way become the audience for this chapter.
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