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Kathleen
Blake Yancey is Associate Professor of English and the Director
of the UNC Charlotte National Writing Project site. A former eighth
grade teacher herself, she teaches classes in writing, in rhetoric, and
in methods of teaching, and she works with teachers on her own campus and
across the country. She has written numerous articles and edited
several books, among them Portfolios in the Writing Classroom and
Situating Portfolios. Her most recent book, Reflection in the
Writing Classroom, is a study of how using reflection on a regular
basis can enhance both the teaching and the learning of writing.
Peter
Elbow is Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program
at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has taught at M.I.T.,
Franconia College, Evergreen State College, and SUNY Stony Brook--where
for five years he directed the Writing Program. His books include
Writing Without Teachers, Writing with Power, Embracing
Contraries, What is English?, and (with Pat Belanoff) a textbook
A Community of Writers and a peer-response pamphlet, Sharing
and Responding. He edited Voice and Writing and Nothing Begins
with N: Explorations of Freewriting. He won the Braddock award for
"The Shifting Relationships Between Speech and Writing" (College Composition
and Communication, October 1985); and the James Berlin award
for "The War Between Reading and Writing and How to End It" (Rhetoric
Review, fall 1993). Oxford U Press will soon publish a book of his
essays written over the last decade or so.
Edward
M. White is Professor Emeritus of English at California State
University, San Bernardino, where he has served prolonged periods as English
department chair and coordinator of the upper-division university writing
program. Statewide in California, he has been coordinator of the CSU Writing
Skills Improvement Program and for over a decade was director of the English
Equivalency Examination program. On the national scene, he directed the
consultant-evaluator service of WPA for six years and is now codirecting
the program once again. His Teaching and Assessing Writing
(1985) has been called "required reading" for the profession; a revised
and expanded edition in 1994 received honorable mention for the MLA Mina
Shaughnessey award "for outstanding research." His work includes more than
40 articles and book chapters on literature and the teaching of writing,
three English Composition textbooks, and, as coeditor, two collections
in 1996 for the MLA and SIU presses.