James C. Raymond

A popular lecturer and consultant, Jim Raymond has conducted seminars on the teaching of writing for audiences as diverse as K-12 teachers in his home state of Alabama and judges and lawyers in Canada, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mauritius, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, various parts of the United States, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Professor Raymond has been a familiar figure in composition circles since 1973, when he began directing the Composition Program at the University of Alabama. He is a former editor of College English and author and editor of numerous books and articles on composition and on legal writing. Moves Writers Make is his second textbook. It draws on his practical experience as a writing teacher and a writing-program administrator, as well as on his interest in rhetorical theory. Discussion and comments about his work are welcome on e-mail at jraymond@english.as.ua.edu.

Phoebe Reeves

Phoebe Reeves' multicultural critical reading, thinking, and writing textbook, What's the Big Idea? Writing Through Reading and Thinking, has recently been published by Prentice Hall. Her second writing text, a cyber-culture anthology of Internet and book published-readings from around the world, called Turning The Century: A Bits and Bytes Reader for Developing Writers, will also be published by Prentice Hall in July of 1999.

In addition to writing texts, Reeves is also a magic realist writer whose second novel, The Revenant was published in fall '98 by Xlibris. Her novella-ization of the Outer Limits teleplay "The Quality of Mercy" for Outer Limits 3 was nominated for the 1997 Horror Writers Association Best Long Fiction award. Her cyber short stories, "Eyes Like Stars" and "Too Beautiful For You" were published in Midnight Zoo magazine and Midnight Zoo's 1994 anthology, respectively. She also adapted and directed "Eyes Like Stars" as a radio play on Shoestring Radio Theater in San Francisco. This production aired nationally. Furthermore, she's written and delivered weekly film reviews for the nationally syndicated radio-show broadcast "Movie Magazine."

Reeves is the director for the YouthBuild San Antonio program at the George Gervin Youth Center in San Antonio, Texas. Part of YouthBuild USA, this non-profit program focuses on individual youth, teaching them construction, education, professional, and life skills, showing them how to build their lives while encouraging the importance of community. Reeves is currently developing an individualized curriculum for YouthBuild San Antonio that directly integrates the construction skills portion of the program with the academic portion through critical thinking and specialized hands-on training.

Previously, Reeves taught creative and expository writing at the University of San Francisco and City College of San Francisco as well as at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and Leeward and Kauai Community Colleges in Hawaii. She received her M.A. in English literature from the University of Massachusetts at Boston and her B.A. in English from Tufts University.

Stephen Reid

Stephen Reid, author of The Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers, 4/e, and Purpose and Process, 3/e, has taught in the English Department at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, for the past 26 years. He has served three times as director of composition at CSU, previously serving as director of placement and coordinator for the Write-to-Learn Writing Project.

His areas of scholarly interest are the history of rhetoric, rhetorical theory, computers and composition, nineteenth and twentieth century non-fiction writers, and teacher training. His literary interests include literature of the American West and the nineteenth and twentieth century British and American novel.

Dr. Reid received his B.A. degree from Grinnell College and attended the University of Iowa before receiving his M.A. degree from the University of Missouri. While earning a Ph.D. at the University of Kansas, he focused on the novel, the Irish Literary Renaissance, Medieval Studies, and nineteenth century prose and poetry. He wrote his dissertation on rhetorical elements in the work of Thomas Carlyle.

Lifelong avocation interests include flyfishing, hiking, water-skiing and snow skiing, basketball, photography, and remodeling projects. Favorite sports teams are the Kansas Jayhawks and the Super Bowl Champion Denver Broncos. You may contact Dr. Reid on the internet at sreid@vines.colostate.edu for any questions about writing, fly-fishing, or the health of John Elway and Terrell Davis.

James A. Reinking

James Reinking is a graduate of the University of Iowa. He has taught at the University of Iowa as a graduate assistant, at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, and currently is professor of English at Ferris State University. He has taught numerous writing courses and, in addition to Strategies for Successful Writing, has co-authored a technical-writing and a basic-writing textbook.

Lois Johnson Rew

Lois Johnson Rew is a professor of English at San Jose State University in San Jose, California, where she teaches technical editing, technical writing, nonfiction writing, and creative writing for children. In addition, she is coordinator of two programs: the career-writing concentration in English and the technical-writing minor. A frequent seminar leader in industry, her clients include Synopsys, Hewlett Packard, Legato, Becton Dickinson, and Wyse Technology. In addition, Rew is the author of a textbook in technical communication, Introduction to Technical Writing: Process and Practice and a novel for children, God's Green Liniment. Currently she is at work on a second children's novel.

Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs (deceased)

Edgar V. Roberts is a summa cum laude B.A. graduate of the University of Minnesota, where he also earned his M.A. and Ph.D. Accomplished editor and author of many English texts, including Writing About Literature (Writing Themes About Literature), eighth edition (Prentice Hall, 1995), Dr. Roberts has spent forty years in classroom teaching. He has been a member of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), in addition to the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the Society for Theatre Research (London)

Edgar V. Roberts can be reached via e-mail at evroberts@aol.com.

Robert C. Rosen

Robert C. Rosen is professor of English at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, where he teaches introductory and upper-level literature and writing courses. He received a B.S. in mathematics from M.I.T. and a Ph.D. in English from Rutgers.

Aside from the Prentice Hall texts Against the Current: Readings for Writers and Literature and Society: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction (both with Pamela J. Annas), he has published Politics of Education: Essays from "Radical Teacher" (State University of New York Press, 1990, co-edited with Susan Gushee O'Malley and Leonard Vogt) and John Dos Passos: Politics and the Writer (University of Nebraska Press, 1981). He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Radical Teacher.

Dr. Robert C. Rosen can be reached via e-mail at rcrosen@pilot.njin.net.

Michael G. Southwell

Michael G. Southwell became a Professor of English at York College/CUNY after attending Princeton University (B.A.) and the University of Wisconsin (Ph.D.). With an interest in how people learn, Southwell was naturally attracted to preparing materials to help students learn how to write more correctly and more clearly after 30 years of teaching composition. This was the impetus behind Mastering Written English (now in its fifth edition) and Mastering Written Sentences, in which a new model of sentence structure is helping students at all levels learn to write better sentences. Southwell is also the author of GrammarLab, a set of tutorial computer programs on standard English.

W. R. Streitberger

W. R. Streitberger, co-author of Drama: Classical To Contemporary, is a Professor of English at the University of Washington and is editor of the following journals and texts: Jacobean and Caroline Revels Accounts, 1603-1642, Malone Society Collections XIII (Oxford University Press for the Malone Society), Topographical Descriptions, Regiments, and Policies(Garland Publishing), Court Revels, 1485-1559 (University of Toronto Press). In addition to editing these journals, he has written numerous essays and articles concerning Renaissance literature, drama, history and culture.

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Teaching Vita

Lynn Quitman Troyka

Renowned Prentice Hall author and now retired professor of English for many years at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Queensborough Community College, Dr. Lynn Quitman Troyka brings to Prentice Hall in 1998 a new Second Edition of the Simon & Schuster Quick Access for Writers, a spiral-bound reference handbook designed for courses in freshman composition.

Dr. Troyka earned her Ph.D. at New York University and taught for many years at the City University of New York-CUNY, including Queensborough Community College, the Center for Advanced Studies in Education at the Graduate School, and in the graduate program in Language and Literacy at City College. She served also as senior research associate in the Office of Academic Affairs-CUNY. A consultant to numerous federal and state agencies, she has also been a consultant and/or guest lecturer at dozens of colleges and universities, in addition to being the featured speaker at various local, national, and international meetings.

The first elected chair of the Two Year College English Association (TYCEA), Dr. Troyka is also a past chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), of the college section of the National Conference of Teachers of English (NCTE), and of the writing division of the Modern Language Association.

Other published works by Lynn Troyka include the Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers, Fourth Edition (Prentice Hall, 1996); Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers, Canadian Edition (with Joanne Buckley and David Gates) (Prentice Hall Canada, 1996); Simon & Schuster Concise Handbook (Prentice Hall, 1992); and Structured Reading, Fourth Edition (Prentice Hall, 1995). She is co-author (with Richard Lloyd-Jones, John Gerber, et al.) of A Checklist and Guide for Reviewing Departments of English, Associated Departments of English of the Modern Language Association (MLA), 1985; and of Steps in Composition, Sixth Edition (with Jerrold Nudelman) (Prentice Hall, 1994); and of the Simon & Schuster Workbook for Writers, Third Edition (with Emily R. Gordon) (Prentice Hall, 1994).

Additionally, Dr. Troyka is an author in composition/rhetoric for the Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Arts (Scholastic, 1993); and in basic writing for the Encyclopedia of Rhetoric, 1994. Former editor of the Journal of Basic Writing, she has published in journals such as "College Composition and Communication," "College English," and "Writing Program Administration," and in books from Southern Illinois Press, Random House, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and Heinemann/Boynton/Cook. She has conducted seminars at numerous colleges, universities, and national and international meetings.

"I love to teach. I simply like students, find rhetoric and composition fascinating, and enjoy helping student grow as writers. Whether students are nontraditional (my specialty) or fresh out of high school, I believe with rock-solid conviction that they and their writing deserve great respect. As all writers (and teachers) know, one's writing cuts close to the ego, revealing not only the content of the piece but also the person behind the piece. Students begin to transcend self-consciousness only when they trust in the tact—without rigor being sacrificed—of their teacher and their peers."

When asked why she wrote "QA," Lynn remarked, "Although my comprehensive handbook, the Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers, has been a huge success, I worried that some students might find it daunting in its highly detailed coverage of all topics. I wanted the challenge of writing a version of that handbook that would be more direct and physically accessible than the 'genre' of comprehensive handbooks can be. (Some people assume I wrote "QA" to follow the trend to spiral-bound, brief handbooks. That's not how I think or why I write. My focus is on the needs, as I see them, of all students in all their rich varieties.)

"What excites me about the second edition of "QA" is that it now has 100 more pages, exactly the number I requested from Prentice Hall/Simon & Schuster. Those extra pages let me include many more of the most popular features of my comprehensive handbook: complete coverage of basic grammar for those students who find it useful; an entirely new section on critical thinking; electronic source documentation forms in all styles; and more."

Hints to teachers for using "QA:" "Use it or lose it" is my best advice for teachers and students. Take the time to go through "QA"'s entire first section, "How to Use Your Handbook." Once students feel comfortable with the dividers, the tabs, the index, the table of contents, they will use the book to teach themselves what they want to learn and to find what they need to look up as they are writing. As the semester (or quarter) goes along, continually refer students to handbook chapters so that as they write, they will remember that they have an accessible, helpful reference at hand.

Quick Access for Writers	Handbook for Writers	Structured Reading

Judith S. Van Alstyne

Judith S. Van Alstyne, Emeritus, Broward Community College, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, introduced Technical Report Writing to the college and initiated a Certificate Program in l973. She taught English at BCC and was an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University over a thirty-year span. Van Alstyne also serves as a technical communications consultant and conducts technical-writing workshops and seminars in businesses and industries throughout three south Florida counties. She has authored numerous graphic-design texts, instructional videos for technical writing, and technical workshop/seminar workbooks. In addition to teaching expository, creative writing, and literature courses, she introduced the technical-writing course curriculum to a private college in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Her book, Professional and Technical Writing, 4/e, has won two awards from the International Society for Technical Writing local chapter and international organization. Van Alstyne holds M.A. and M.Ed. degrees from Florida Atlantic University and a B.A. degree from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

Dr. Randall A. Wells

Dr. Randall A. Wells is a professor of English and Speech at Coastal Carolina University, where he was a top 5 runner-up for the Teacher of the Year Award in 1996. He holds a Ph.D in English from the University of Carolina-Chapel Hill, and an M.A. and B.A. in English as well. Prentice Hall author of Stretch: Explore, Explain, and Persuade, Dr. Wells wrote this book so that those using it can "open the schoolroom window to fresh air in writing instruction."

He is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE); the Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC), and the Southern Oral History Association. Dr. Wells is also the former director of the Coastal Area Writing Project (a branch of the National Writing Project) and the recipient of the Waccomaw Award, from the Waccomaw Center for Cultural and Historical Studies.

Dr. Randall A. Wells can be reached via e-mail at rwells@coastal.edu.

Louise H. Westling

Louise Westling is a professor of English at the University of Oregon. She has written several books on the literature of the American South and on ecological approaches to literature. Selected publications include Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor and The Green Breast of the New World: Landscape, Gender, and American Fiction. In addition, she has edited two autobiographies: He Included Me: The Autobiography of Sarah Rice and Witness to Injustice by David Frost, Jr. For the past three decades, she has been a student of bronze-and iron-age mythologies and the literatures of Mesopotamia and Greece. World literature courses have been a regular part of her teaching responsibilities.

Selma Wilf

Dr. Selma Wilf has worked in the field of reading since 1963. Her experience extends from elementary teaching through teacher training at the university level. De. Wilf received her Bachelor's and Master's Degrees from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. at Arizona State University. Her career at Phoenix College, which began in 1975, has included nine years as Reading Department Chairperson as well as five years in curriculum development and grants writing. Dr. Wilf is currently Professor Emeritus at Phoenix College and works there in curriculum development and instructional design. Since 1983, Dr. Wilf has published the following books: Four editions of Basic Skills for Effective Reading, Techniques for Success: College Reading and Study Skills, Reading Skills for Career Success, and Up the Ladder: Study and Test-taking Strategies for Fire Service Personnel.

Dr. Nancy Wood

Dr. Nancy Wood is a professor in the English department, University of Texas at Arlington. An honors undergraduate with a B.A. in English from the University of Oregon, Dr. Wood also received her M.A. in English from Cornell University and her Ph.D. from Rutgers University.

Dr. Wood wrote Perspectives on Argument because, as she says, "I thought we needed an argument textbook that explained argument theory clearly and that encouraged multiple perspectives on issues along with strategies for finding common ground in order to be more in keeping with the times."

The published author of other English textbooks, including Strategies for College Reading and Thinking (McGraw-Hill, 1991), Dr. Wood has also written a number of articles about argument theory. She is a member of the Modern Language Association (MLA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA), the National Association of Developmental Education (NADE), College Reading and Learning Association, and the Rhetoric Society of America.

Dr. Nancy Wood can be reached via e-mail at woodnv@utarlg.uta.edu.

Perspectives on Argument	Writing Argumentative Essays