Edward M. White has written or edited thirteen books and about one hundred articles or book chapters on writing, writing instruction, and writing assessment. In 2007, he coedited (with a former student) his fifth textbook for college writing students, The Promise of America, and fully revised the fourth edition of his book for teachers, Assigning, Responding, Evaluating. His best-known books are Teaching and Assessing Writing, which won a Shaughnessey award from the Modern Language Association in 1994, and Assessment of Writing, an MLA research volume, in 1996. After taking early retirement in 1997 as an emeritus professor of English at the CSU San Bernardino campus, where he was named “Outstanding Professor” in 1994, he joined the University of Arizona English department, where he has taught graduate courses in writing assessment, writing research, and writing program administration, completing his fifty-first year of college teaching in 2009. Now a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona, he is coauthoring a book on evaluating writing programs and is continuing to publish articles and book chapters.