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John J. Ruszkiewicz is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin where he has taught literature, rhetoric, and writing for more than thirty-five years. A winner of the Presidents Associates Teaching Excellence Award, he was instrumental in creating the Department of Rhetoric and Writing in 1993 and directed the unit from 2001-05. He has also served as president of the Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE) of Texas, which gave him its Frances Hernández TeacherScholar Award in 2012. For Bedford/St. Martin's, he is coauthor, with Andrea Lunsford, of Everythings An Argument (6th edition, 2013), and the author of How To Write Anything (2nd edition 2012) and A Reader's Guide to College Writing (2014).