Richard Johnson-Sheehan is a Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University. At Purdue, he has directed the Introductory Composition program, and he has mentored new teachers of composition for many years. He teaches a variety of courses in composition, professional writing, and writing program administration, as well as classical rhetoric and the rhetoric of science. He has published widely in these areas. His prior books on writing include Technical Communication Today, now in its fourth edition, and Writing Proposals, now in its second edition. Professor Johnson-Sheehan was awarded 2008 Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing and has been an officer in the Council for Writing Program Administrators.
Charles Paine is a Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, where he teaches undergraduate courses in first-year, intermediate, and professional writing as well as graduate courses in writing pedagogy, the history of rhetoric and composition, and other areas. At UNM, he directed the Rhetoric and Writing Program and the First-Year Writing Program. He is an active member of the Council of Writing Program Administrators and currently serves on its Executive Board. He cofounded and coordinates the Consortium for the Study of Writing in College, a joint effort of the National Survey of Student Engagement and the Council of Writing Program Administrators. The Consortium conducts general research into the ways that undergraduate writing can lead to enhanced learning, engagement, and other gains related to student success.
Cathi Shaw is a faculty member in the Departments of Communications and English at Okanagan College. Over the last ten years, she has taught technical, professional, and academic writing at Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and Okanagan College. Her research focus is on the development of voice and critical thinking in university and college student writers. She is a member of the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing and the Canadian Authors Association.
Jordan Stouck is an Instructor of Composition at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. She has taught composition for the past decade at both UBC and the University of Lethbridge, and in 2007–2008 coordinated the University of Lethbridge’s Academic Writing Program. Her publications and presentations have focused on how discourse and language are context-driven. She is an active member of the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing and of the Modern Languages Association.
