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Allison Ainsworth

Allison J. Ainsworth serves as the Chair of the Department of Communication, Media Studies, and Journalism at Gainesville State College, Gainesville, Georgia. She teaches Communication courses in the areas of Business and Professional, Interpersonal, Intercultural, as well as the basic course. Additionally, she teaches Environmental Communication as a member of the Teaching Faculty of the Institute for Environmental and Spatial Analysis where she combines geospatial analysis with her research projects. She is actively involved with the National Communication Association and serves as the 2010-2011 Chair of the Community College Section and Past-Faculty Delegate to Sigma Chi Eta, one of the honoraries sponsored by NCA. She received her bachelor’s degree in English Education and her master’s degree in Speech Communication & Theatre from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. In Fall 2010, she successful defended her dissertation titled "The Communication Process: Impact of Ethnocentrism and Communication Apprehension on Foreign Language Student Competence,” and will be awarded her doctorate in Higher Education Administrative Leadership from Argosy University in Spring 2011.

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Cheryl E. Ball

Cheryl E Ball is an Associate Professor of Digital Publishing Studies in the English Department at West Virginia University. Her areas of specialization include multimodal composition and editing practices, digital media scholarship, and digital publishing. Since 2006, Ball has been editor of the online, peer-reviewed, open-access journal Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, which exclusively publishes digital media scholarship and is read in 180 countries. She has published articles in a range of rhetoric/composition, technical communication, and media studies journals including Computers and Composition, C&C Online, Fibreculture, Convergence, Programmatic Perspectives, and Technical Communication Quarterly. Her recent books include a scholarly multimedia collection　The New Work of Composing　(co-edited with Debra Journet and Ryan Trauman, C&C Digital Press) and the print-based　RAW: Reading and Writing New Media　(co-edited with Jim Kalmbach, Hampton Press).

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Peter Berkow

Nationally recognized producer, teacher, and writer Peter Berkow has interviewed hundreds of people about writing, and has produced public television projects ranging from entertainment to education. In addition to being an Emmy-award winning television producer, Berkow, an English Composition specialist at Shasta College in Redding, California, was recognized in 2001 as the nation's leading distance learning college professor with the ITC Award for Outstanding Distance Learning Faculty.

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Patricia Bizzell

Patricia Bizzell (PhD, Rutgers University) is Reverend John E. Brooks, S. J. Professor of Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross. With Bruce Herzberg she has published Negotiating Difference (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996), and with Bruce Herzberg and Nedra Reynolds, The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing, Fifth Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000).

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Brian S. Brooks

Brian S. Brooks is associate dean for undergraduate studies and administration at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. In addition to coauthoring News Reporting and Writing for Bedford/St. Martin’s, he is coauthor of Telling the Story, Third Edition (2007), Working with Words, Sixth Edition (2006), and The Art of Editing (2009).

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Richard Campbell

Richard Campbell, director of the journalism program at Miami University, is the author of "60 Minutes" and the News: A Mythology for Middle America (1991) and coauthor of Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy (1994). He has written for numerous publications, including Columbia Journalism Review, Journal of Communication, and Media Studies Journal, and he is on the editorial boards of Critical Studies in Mass Communication and Television Quarterly. He holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

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Daniel J. Canary

Daniel J. Canary (PhD, University of Southern California) is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. A current member of ten editorial boards, his research interests include relational maintenance, interpersonal conflict management, sex differences, and interpersonal goals. His research has appeared in several academic journals that publish studies on interpersonal communication. He is serving a four-year term as President of the Western States Communication Association and is a former President of the International Network on Personal Relationships.

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Roy Peter Clark

Roy Peter Clark has taught writing at The Poynter Institute for more than thirty years, and now serves as its vice president and senior scholar. He is the author or editor of fifteen books on writing and journalism, including Writing Tools and The Glamour of Grammar. He is the creator of the National Writers Workshops and is a member of the Feature Writing Hall of Fame. His work has been featured on the Today show, NPR , and the Oprah Winfrey Show. His podcasts of writing tools have been downloaded more than a million times.

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Patrick Clauss

Patrick Clauss is the Director of First Year Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Notre Dame. He studies the relationships among argumentation theory, composition theory and pedagogy, and rhetoric. He teaches undergraduate writing and rhetoric courses and a graduate practicum on the teaching of writing. His most recently scholarly work addresses the roles of informal logic and critical thinking in the composition classroom.

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Michael J. Cody

Michael J. Cody (PhD, Michigan State University) is Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He is the author of six books, more than twenty book chapters, and over forty articles published in journals such as Communication Quarterly, Communication Education, and the Journal of Health Communication. Cody is interested in axonomies of messages in either compliance gaining (seeking one’s goals) or in accounts (offering explanations for one’s actions) when individuals pursue goals in real life contexts such as flirting, relational dissolution, sales encounters, traffic court, child custody mediations, and in health maintenance contexts. Cody is currently involved in a number of projects using entertainment as a means to educate viewers, including educating viewers about breast cancer and infectious diseases.

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Timothy Corrigan

Timothy Corrigan is a Professor of English, Cinema Studies, and History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. His work in Cinema Studies has focused on modern American and contemporary international cinema. He received a BA from the University of Notre Dame, and completed graduate work at the University of Leeds, Emory University, and the University of Paris III. His books include New German Film: The Displaced Image (Indiana UP), The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History (Methuen); Writing about Film (Seventh Edition, Longman); A Cinema without Walls: Movies and Culture after Vietnam (Routledge/Rutgers UP); Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader (Second Edition, Routledge); The Film Experience (Second Edition, Bedford/St. Martin’s, coauthored with Patricia White); Critical Visions: Readings in Classic and Contemporary Film Theory (Bedford/St. Martin’s, coauthored with Patricia White); and The Essay Film: from Montaigne, after Marker (Oxford UP, forthcoming). He has published essays in Film Quarterly, Discourse, and Cinema Journal, among other collections, and is also an editor of the journal Adaptation and an editorial board member of Cinema Journal.

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Sherri Hope Culver

Sherri Hope Culver is an assistant professor of Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media at Temple University and serves as Director for the university’s Media Education Lab. She also has extensive experience as a television producer and consultant to public media and children's media companies.

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Sue DeWine

Sue DeWine is Professor or Organizational Communication at Ohio University and former Director of the School of Interpersonal Communication for eleven years. She is author or co-author of seven books and over 50 publications and book chapters on interpersonal relationships at work, training and consulting. She is currently writing Misunderstandings at Work with Dan Modaff (2000). Sue has been a consultant for over 25 years with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, associations, and academic institutions.

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Bernard F. Dick

Bernard F. Dick is Professor of Communication and English and Co-Director of the School of Art and Media Studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Teaneck, New Jersey, campus. He is the author of a number of books on film including The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film; Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood; Hal Wallis: Producer to the Stars; Forever Mame: Rosalind Russell; and She Walked in Beauty: Claudette Colbert. He has just completed a biography of Loretta Young, Hollywood Madonna.

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