MICHAEL A. PEMBERTON is Assistant Professor in the Writing and Linguistics department at Georgia Southern University, where he also directs the University Writing Center. He has published articles in College Compostition and Communication, The Writing Instructor, Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, Computers and Composition, and the Writing Center Journal. In addition to being a founding co-editor of the journal Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, he also writes a regular column called Writing Center Ethics in the Writing Lab Newsletter.

• Acknowledgments Introduction, Michael A. Pemberton Part I: Ethics and the Composition Classroom Pedagogical Ethics and the Cultural Studies Composition Course: Implications of a Discourse Ethics Lisa Toner Advocacy in the Writing Classroom John Ruszkiewicz Advocating Language: An Ethical Approach to Politics in the Classroom William Thelin Refiguring Classroom Authority Andrea Lunsford The Ethics of Plagiarism Rebecca Moore Howard An Ethics of Difference Myrna Harrienger and Nancy Uber-Kellogg Part II: Ethics and Specialized Writing Programs Composition as Service: Implications of Utilitarian, Duties, and Care Ethics Larry Beason Ethics in Technical/Professional Communication: From Telling the Truth to Making Better Decisions in a Complex World Cezar Ornatowski Part III: Ethics and the Profession A Conflict of Personal and Institutional Ethics: Writing Instruction and Composition Scholarship Mary Trachsel Literacy, Equality and Competence: Ethics in Writing Assessment Michael Williamson and Brian Huot Exploring Our Ethics of Student Writing Jane Detweiler, Bob McEachern, Jame Mathison-Fife, and Lauren Sewell Going Public Peter Mortensen The Ethics of Public Review Miles Myers Author Index Subject Index