| All books are always collaborative efforts, and this one is no exception. Many organizations and people have supported the completion of this project. Many thanks go to Anne Fitzsimmons, Jamila Dunlap, Shawon Henry, Melissa Peregrin, and Daniel Pineda who alone made this work possible; the Syracuse University Institutional Review Board for support of this project; the Northern Arizona University Organized Research Grant Office for two grants that relieved me from summer teaching and enabled me to complete this book; Keith Gilyard and Victor Villanueva for their very helpful support and suggestions concerning this project; the editors of the Journal of Basic Writing, George Otte and Trudy Smoke, who have encouraged my work for a number of years now and have always offered crucial suggestions; Marilyn Sternglass, for her very thorough, probing questions; Louella Holter, Northern Arizona University's editor, who provided a great deal of time and assistance in formatting and editing this text; Anthony Daniel Bortin, a former student and nationally known artist who graciously volunteered his own artistic talents and time to create the cover for this book; Gene Balzer, neighbor, friend, and professor of photography at Northern Arizona University, who took my picture for this book; my dissertation committee, including Richard Buttny, Louise Phelps, James Zebroski, and Catherine Smith who have all encouraged my perspectives on this research from the beginning; Duane Roen, an inspirational researcher and teacher, who offered very productive comments on earlier drafts of this work; my graduate students in the Basic Writing Theory and Practice course I have taught over the years, especially my research assistant, David Grant, who gathered articles as well as books for me during the early stages of revision; Heather Jefferson, the copy editor for this project; Stefany Jones, my production editor, for her support in the final stages of the project; my editor, Linda Bathgate, for believing in and arguing for the merit of the project and seeing it through to completion; and my Research Group colleagues at Northern Arizona University, Jean Boreen, Sibylle Gruber, |
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