Deborah C. Andrews

Deborah C. Andrews is a professor of English and the coordinator of the Business and Technical Writing program at the University of Delaware where she teaches undergraduate writing courses and mentors graduate students who teach technical and business communication. Formerly, Deborah taught business and technical writing at Drexel University, at Ohio State University (where she held a joint appointment in the departments of English and Metallurgical Engineering), and at Utah State University.

Deborah currently serves as the editor of "Business Communication Quarterly," one of two journals published by the Association for Business Communication. She is also a fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies at Delaware (1997-98), researching strategies for improving instruction in writing. She serves on committees of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing and the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, which address international issues that stem from the core of her research.

In addition, Deborah conducts research on visualization—the use of visuals to think about, record, and convey scientific information. The co-author of six textbooks, she has also written many scholarly articles and has edited an anthology, International Dimensions of Technical Communication, published by the Society of Technical Communication Press (1996). She has given presentations at major conferences in the U.S. and in Europe, consulting with many organizations and lecturing in the U.S., England, Spain, and Japan. Her most recent text is Technical Communication in the Global Community, a Prentice Hall publication that prepares students to become resourceful, authoritative technical writers in a rapidly changing global environment.

Deborah C. Andrews can be reached via e-mail at dandrews@odin.english.udel.edu.

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Tony Barnstone

Tony Barnstone teaches American literature, creative writing, and Asian literature at Whittier College. He is the author of several books of translation, from classical and contemporary Chinese poetry and prose, including The Art of Writing: Teachings of the Chinese Masters; Out of the Howling Storm: The New Chinese Poetry; and Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei. His volume of original poetry, titled Impure, is forthcoming in July 1999 from the University Press of Florida.

Dr. Anita K. Barry

Dr. Anita K. Barry is currently a professor of Linguistics and director of the Linguistics Program in the English Department at the University of Michigan-Flint. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and has extensive experience in the teaching of grammar and linguistics.

In addition to English grammar, Dr. Barry has published scholarly articles on English and Spanish syntax and on courtroom narratives. She has delivered many presentations in her areas of specialization, including "Narrative Style and Witness Testimony," at a Linguistic Society of America meeting. She received the Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Michigan-Flint and the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Michigan Association of Governing Boards. She is a member of the Law and Society Association and the International Association of Forensic Linguistics.

Dr. Anita K. Barry can be reached via e-mail at abarry@spruce.flint.umich.edu.

Kathryn Benander

A graduate of California State University, Bakersfield (B.A., M.A. in English), Kathryn Benander began her teaching career in 1987 working with many learning disabled and ESL students. Since 1990, she has taught full-time at Porterville College, instructing courses in developmental writing and reading, freshman composition, advanced composition and literature, and a variety of literature survey courses (American literature, poetry, women writers, Shakespeare, etc.). Additionally, Benander is an adviser for Phi Theta Kappa, a student honor society. For the last two years, she has been listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, and she recently received a NISOD award for teaching excellence.

Benander lives on a small ranch in California with her husband, Ron, and a menagerie of pets. Her favorite activities outside of teaching are reading, writing, and gardening--all of which she pursues with equal passion. Benander explains, "I greatly admire the ability writers have to take us places and allow us to experience facets of life that we may never see otherwise. My hope for students who use The Writing Kaleidoscope is that they will begin a journey they never end. Writing and reading are ever-developing skills. As our skills change, we change, re-creating ourselves and our ability to express and understand who we are and who we will become."

John Biays and Carol Wershoven

South Floridians Dr. John Biays and Dr. Carol Wershoven teach at Broward Community College (Davie) and Palm Beach Community College (Boca Raton), respectively. They are the authors of Along These Lines: A Course for Developing Writers. Since the mid-1970s, this husband-wife writing team has taught every level from college freshman to university seniors, from developmental writing to honors interdisciplinary seminars. They are long-time members of the Two-Year College Association (TYCA) and have made numerous presentations spoofing or chronicling the latest rhetoric theory battles that engage, enrage, and enlighten writing teachers nationwide.

Ron S. Blicq and Lisa Moretto

Ron Blicq and Lisa Moretto are senior consultants with RGI International, a consulting company specializing in oral and written communication. They give workshops based on the Pyramid Method of Writing, presented in this book.

Ron is senior consultant of RGI's Canadian office. He has extensive experience as a technical writer and editor with the Royal Air Force in Britain and CAE Industries Limited in Canada and has been teaching technical and business communication since 1967. Ron has authored five books with Prentice Hall and has written and produced six educational video programs, such as "Sharpening Your Business Communication Skills" and "So, You Have to Give a Talk?" He is a Fellow of both the Society for Technical Communication and the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, and a life member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Ron lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In the summer he flies with the Winnipeg Gliding Club; in the winter he has been learning to downhill ski.

Lisa is senior consultant of RGI's United States office. She has experience as an information developer for IBM in the U.S. and as a learning products engineer for Hewlett-Packard in Great Britain. Lisa holds a BSc in technical communication from Clarkson University, New York, and an MSc in user interface design from London Guildhall University. Her specialties include developing on-line interactive information, designing user interfaces, and writing product documentation. She is a member of the Society for Technical Communication and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Lisa lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Although she lives by the ocean, Lisa's heart is in the mountains, for she is an ardent skier.

Dr. Lillian Bridwell-Bowles

Dr. Lillian Bridwell-Bowles, with Holly Littlefield and Kathleen Sheerin Devore, is the author of Identity Matters: Rhetorics of Difference, new in 1998 from Prentice Hall. Currently the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing in Minneapolis, MN, she is also professor of English and Women's Studies there.

Dr. Bridwell-Bowles holds a B.S. and M.S. in English Education from Florida State University and an Eh.D. in Language Education: Writing Research from the University of Georgia. She is past chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) and past executive committee member of the National Council of Teachers of English. In addition she has offered her expertise as both contributor and reviewer for many renowned industry journals.

Barbara Cambridge

Barbara Cambridge has discovered and rediscovered the power of portfolios as a source of learning during her more than 25 years of teaching composition and literature. As a classroom teacher, a director of campus writing working with colleagues in many disciplines, and now a director of teaching initiatives in a major professional association, Cambridge has found that portfolios can generate and sustain learning for students, faculty members, and, indeed, institutions.

Cambridge, professor of English and associate dean of the faculties at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, currently directs the Carnegie Teaching Academy Campus Program at the American Association for Higher Education in Washington, DC. In this role she works with campuses across the country in fostering the scholarship of teaching and learning. Part of that scholarship involves documenting the learning of teachers, in such forms as course portfolios and teaching portfolios. Her article in Innovative Higher Education entitled "The Paradigm Shifts: Examining Quality of Teaching Through Assessment of Student Learning" (Summer 1996), links student portfolios and faculty portfolios as mutually reinforcing sources of learning.

Cambridge is past president of the National Council of Writing Program Administrators, serves on MLAÕs Executive Commission on Teaching as a Profession, and serves as editor of the Journal of Teaching Writing. She is co-editor of Learning Through Assessment: A Resource Guide for Higher Education.

Dr. Elizabeth H. Campbell

Dr. Elizabeth H. Campbell is currently an assistant professor of Communications in the Business and Industrial Management Department at Kettering University (formerly GMI Engineering and Management Institute) in Flint, Michigan. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati, an M.A. from Northern Michigan University, and a B.A. in English from Michigan State University. Dr. Campbell is a former National Writing Project site director and is also a member of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA), and the Association for Business Communication. She is one of the proud winners of the Puzzler Contest on National Public Radio's "Car Talk" program. In addition, she has done extensive work in public relations, community education, journalism, and freelance writing.

Dr. Elizabeth H. Campbell can be reached via e-mail at ecambel@nova.gmi.edu.

Timothy Corrigan

Timothy Corrigan, author of Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader, is a Professor of English at Temple University, where he teaches and writes about both literature and film. Concentrating his literary scholarship on British Romanticism, he has published a book-length study of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Colderidge, Language and Criticism (University of Georgia Press), as well as scholarly essays on Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, and William Hazlitt. His research in film studies has focused on the modern international cinemas, and has produced five books. Corrigan was educated at The University of Notre Dame, Leeds University, Emory University, and the University of Paris III. He teaches both introductory and advanced courses in film and literature. In addition to teaching courses at Temple University in Pennsylvania, he has taught at Temple campuses in Rome and Tokyo, as well as The University of Amsterdam, The University of Paris, and Columbia University. His current research includes work on the essay film and on pedagogy and film.

R. Allan Dermott

Allan Dermott received bachelor of arts and master of science degrees from Florida State University, with a major in English education and minors in mathematics, speech, and Latin. His doctorate of education is from the University of Maine at Orono, with a concentration in reading and language acquisition. Over the past three-and-a-half decades Dermott has taught English in middle school, high school, university, and college settings, finally settling in a community technical college where he focuses on his expertise, helping developmental students, often with learning disabilities. He has co-authored nine journal articles, has made four presentations at international conferences, and has written a major federal grant to help developmental high school students preparing to go to college.

Dean Dougherty

Dean Dougherty (editor of SHORT FICTION 4/e Ó 1999) lectures in the short story at the University of Delaware where he met Charles Bohner. He had previously taught a course in early American Literature at Villanova University and has taught survey courses and freshman composition at Villanova University, and has taught survey courses and freshman composition at both schools. He holds degrees from Drexel Institute of Technology (now Drexel University) and Temple University, Philadelphia. He has also studied at King's College, University of London. His poetry, criticism, interviews, and articles on classical music have appeared in a variety of publications including Ampersand, The Drummer, and Concert Magazine. He won the Strabismus Theater Award for his collection of short comedies, and is a member of AFTRA, SAG, AEA, and The Dramatists Guild. He taught English and reading for more than ten years in Philadelphia's secondary schools and has worked in Haiti, Ireland, and Mexico.

Audrey Edwards

Audrey Edwards holds a doctorate in education from Harvard University, with a concentration in the psychology of language. She has taught English for 11 years and teacher preparation courses for 9. A recipient of awards for curriculum design, teaching, and service to students with learning disabilities, Edwards has written 12 journal articles and given over 60 presentations on teaching.

George W. Feinstein

George W. Feinstein, Professor Emeritus, Pasadena City College is the author of Programed College Vocabulary and Programed Spelling Demons. Born in North Dakota, Feinstein earned his B.A. and M.A. at the University of North Dakota and attended the University of Iowa for his Ph.D. in English. Married in 1942, Feinstein now has three daughters and five grandsons. His hobbies include chess, billiards, letters to editors, and jogging. Having run the L.A. Marathon four times in recent years, his ambition is to run the marathon when he's one-hundred.

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Laraine Fergenson

Laraine Fergenson is the author of numerous articles and reviews in addition to All in One: Basic Writing Text, Workbook, and Reader. A professor of English at Bronx Community College in New York, she studied at Smith College (A.B.) and Columbia University (M.A., PH.D.). Along with her teaching responsibilities, Laraine serves as coordinator of the Writing Program at Bronx Community College. Her areas of specialization include literature of the English Romantic Period, literature of the American Romantic Period, and Composition (freshman, advanced, and developmental).

Dr. Kim Flachmann

Dr. Kim Flachmann earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation on William Carlos Williams's poetry. Currently a professor at California State University, Bakersfield, she is also the director of the Composition Program—remedial through graduate level.

The recipient of various awards and honors, including Innovator of the Year for the Kern Community College District (1991) and the El Paso Natural Gas Award for Excellence in Teaching (1994), Dr. Flachmann has done innovative work in writing on her campus and in her community. She has also done insightful research in the field of rhetoric and has delivered numerous papers on reading and writing at state and national conferences. Kim is currently serving as the chair of the Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Forum for the Conference on College Composition and Communication. She is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the California Association of Teachers of English (CATE), the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), the National Association of Developmental Educators (NADE), and the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA).

Dr. Kim Flachmann can be reached via e-mail at Kflachmann@csubak.edu or KFlachmann@aol.com.

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Kim & Michael Flachmann

Michael Flachmann, Professor of English and Directory of University Honors Programs at California State University, Bakersfield, earned his B.A. at the University of the South, his M.A. at the University of Virginia, and his doctorate at the University of Chicago. He has written eight books Ð most recently Beware of the Cat: The First English Novel (Huntington Library Press), The Image of Idleness: EnglandÕs First Epistolary Novel, ShakespeareÕs Lovers, ShakespeareÕs Women, and The Prose Reader: Essays for Thinking, Reading, and Writing - and over fifty articles in such journals as Shakespeare Quarterly, Studies in English Literature, English Literary Renaissance, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Studies in Philology, and others. He has also worked for many years in professional theatre, serving as dramaturg for over seventy Shakespearean productions at such prominent west-coast theatres as the Oregon Shakespearean Festival, the La Jolla Payhouse, California Institute of the Arts, and the Utah Shakespearean Festival. In 1993 he was selected Outstanding Professor for the entire twenty-campus California State University System, and in 1995 he was named "U.S. Professor of the Year" by the Carnegie Foundation in Washington, D.C. FlachmannÕs avocations include Judo, a sport in which he is a fourth degree black belt, and tennis. He and his wife are raising two beautiful children, Christopher and Laura.

Marjorie Ford and Jon Ford

Marjorie Ford is currently a lecturer in English at Stanford University in California. She holds an M.A. in English from San Francisco State University and a B.A. in English from the University of California-Berkeley. With Jon Ford, she is the author of the new 1998 Prentice Hall text, A Web of Stories: An Introduction to Short Fiction.

For seven years Ms. Ford was the editor of "Notes in The Margins," Stanford's Writing Program Newsletter. She is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). She is the author of six other texts, including four with Jon Ford: Imagining Worlds (McGraw-Hill, 1995); Coming from Home (McGraw-Hill, 1993); Dreams and Inward Journeys (HarperCollins, 1988, '94, '97); [and]Writing as Revelation (HarperCollins, 1992). In addition to the textbooks she has written with Jon Ford, she has written two texts that support service learning in the composition classroom: Writing for Change(McGraw-Hill, l996) and A Guide for Change (McGraw-Hill, l996).

Jon Ford is a professor of English at the College of Alameda in California, where he is also program chair in English and the Writing Center coordinator. He holds an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin and a B.A. from the University of Texas and is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), the Northern California Writing Center Association, and the English Council of Two-Year Colleges (ECTYC). Jon was awarded the Excellence Award in Teaching from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development, in 1996. In addition to the textbooks he has written with Marjorie Ford, he has edited a developmental reader, Responding Voices (McGraw-Hill, 1997).

Marjorie Ford can be reached via e-mail at mford@leland.stanford.edu.


Jon Ford can also be reached via e-mail at mford@leland.stanford.edu.

Toby Fulwiler

Toby Fulwiler is a full professor of English and director of the writing program at the University of Vermont, a post he's held since 1983. Previously, he taught at Michigan Tech and the University of Wisconsin, where, in 1973, he received his Ph.D. in American Literature. He conducts writing workshops for teachers in all grade levels and across all disciplines. At Vermont he teaches introductory and advanced writing classes. His most recent Prentice Hall books include The Working Writer, 2nd edition, College Writer's Reference, 2nd edition, and The Blair Handbook, 2nd edition--these last two co-authored with Alan Hayakawa.

In addition, he has written College Writing, 2nd edition, (1997) and When Writing Teachers Teach Literature, co-edited with Art Young (1996). Moreover, he has written Teaching With Writing (1986); edited The Journal Book, (1987); and co-edited Programs that Work (1990), Community of Voices (1992), and Reading, Writing, and the Study of Literature (1989). In his spare time he writes a column called "Riders Who Write" for the BMW Owner's News, providing advice on how to write better motorcycle travel stories.

The College Writer's Reference	The Blair Handbook

Robert Funk

Robert W. Funk taught high school for 10 years before receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 1974. He is currently a professor of English at Eastern Illinois University and lectures in grammar, advanced composition, Shakespeare, and methods for teaching English in the secondary school. He has co-authored 10 college-level books and published articles on Shakespeare and Faulkner. He has also lectured at Eureka College and Richland Community College and has presented numerous workshops on composition and the teaching of literature at national and regional conferences, including CCCC and NCTE, and for state and local in-service training sessions. His current research interests include contemporary rhetoric, composition theory, and reader-response criticism.

Dr. Steven M. Gerson and Sharon J. Gerson

Dr. Steven M. Gerson (PhD, Texas Tech University) has taught Technical Writing at Johnson County Community College (Overland Park, KS) since 1978. He has presented over 500 Technical/Business Writing seminars to corporations, more than three dozen Technical Writing workshops to public school teachers (K-12), three dozen conference presentations at the national and international levels, published over two dozen articles on Technical Writing, and published the book Writing That Works: A Teacher's Guide to Technical Writing (Kansas State Department of Education). Steve, a senior member of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), has won numerous awards for his teaching and publications, including being named an STC Associate Fellow for Outstanding Contributions to the Profession, a Master Teacher by the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development, a Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railroad Award for Academic Excellence, a recipient of the University of Kansas Teacher Recognition Award, and a 6-time winner of the Distinguished Service Award at Johnson County Community College.

Sharon J. Gerson (MA, Texas Tech University) has taught Technical Writing at DeVry Institute of Technology since 1987. A senior professor at DeVry, she is the co-author of The Red Bridge Reader (a composition textbook, now in its second edition). Sharon has spoken at over two dozen national and international conferences and published numerous articles on Technical Writing. Since 1979, Sharon, a senior member of the Society for Technical Communication, has been a free-lance Technical Writer and co-owner of Gerson Consulting with her co-author Steven M. Gerson. This firm specializes in corporate communications, editing, writing, and seminar presentations. Sharon and Steve are the proud parents of two daughters.

Louis Giannetti

Louis Giannetti is a Professor of English and Film at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Educated at Boston University and the University of Iowa, he has published many articles, both popular and scholarly, on political subjects, literature, and drama. In addition to being a professional film critic for several years, he has written about movies for such scholarly journals as Literature/Film Quarterly, The Western Humanities Review, and Film Criticism. Dr. Giannetti is also the author of a book on cinema theory, Godard and Others: Essays on Film Form, published in both Great Britain and the United States.

Dr. Giannetti's other books include Masters of the American Cinema (Prentice Hall, 1981), a survey of American fiction films from the perspective of eighteen key figures. Flashback: A Brief History of Film, Third Edition (Prentice Hall, 1996), written with Scott Eyman, is a history organized by decade, outlining the major events, trends, and important filmmakers and their work, with emphasis on the American cinema. Both books are copiously illustrated. Understanding Movies has been a best-selling text in all its previous editions, widely used in the United States and in such countries as Australia, Great Britain, Singapore, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and Japan. Professor Giannetti is the father of two daughters, Christina and Francesca.