About the Author

Andrea A. Lunsford is professor of English at Stanford University and also teaches at the Bread Loaf School of English. A past chair of CCCC, she has won the major publication awards in both the CCCC and MLA. For Bedford/St. Martin s she is the author of "The St. Martin's Handbook," Seventh Edition, "The Presence of Others," Fifth Edition, and "The Everyday Writer," Fifth Edition, as well as the Sixth Edition of both "Everything s an Argument" books.

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 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 coauthor, with Andrea Lunsford, of "The Presence of Others" (2008) and "Everything s An Argument" (2007), and coauthor, with Andrea Lunsford and Keith Walters, of "Everything's An Argument with Readings" (2007).Keith Walters is professor of applied linguistics at Portland State University. Much of his research focuses on language and identity in North Africa, especially Tunisia, and the United States. He has also taught freshman composition and English as a second/foreign language."