How to Write Anything : A Guide and Reference with Readings

JOHN J. RUSZKIEWICZ is chair of the School of Undergraduate Studies Writing Committee at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught literature, rhetoric, and writing for more than thirty years. A winner of the President’s 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. For Bedford/St. Martin's, he is co- author, with Andrea Lunsford, of The Presence of Others (2008), and Everything’s An Argument (2010) and co-author, with Andrea Lunsford and Keith Walters, of Everything's an Argument with Readings (2010).

Jay Dolmage is an Assistant Professor of English and the coordinator of the first-year writing program at West Virginia University, acting Chair of the NCTE Committee on Disability Issues in College Composition, and a member of the NCTE Public Language Awards Committee. His award-winning research on rhetoric and the teaching of writing has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including College English, CCC, Rhetoric Review, JAC, Prose Studies, and Disability Studies Quarterly. He is also co-editor of the professional resource Disability and the Teaching of Writing (Bedford/St.Martin’s 2008).