Introduction [excerpt] Drawing on my experiences as a secondary educatator, my research into the affective turn in composition theory--and intending to participate in and contribute to recent conversations among scholars in the field about how to respond to the emergence of post-truth--I propose in my thesis a new paradigm for composition educators to embrace in addressing the challenges that the Rhetoric Society of America, Writing Program Administration, and scholars such as [Bruce] McComiskey, [Ellen C.]...