Behind the Curtain of Scholarly Publishing

Greg Giberson is professor of writing and rhetoric at Oakland University in Rochester Michigan. He coauthored a proposal that established an undergraduate degree in writing and rhetoric at OU and is the chief advisor for undergraduate majors in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric. He has presented and published on various aspects of the development and implementation of undergraduate degrees in writing, most recently in Composition Forum. He is coeditor of What We Are Becoming and Writing Majors.Megan Schoen is an associate professor of writing and rhetoric at Oakland University, where she directs the first-year writing program. She is a co-founder and former co-managing editor of Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, and she currently serves as an associate editor for College English. Megan’s research focuses on composition studies, writing program administration, and comparative rhetorics. Her articles have appeared in Rhetoric Review, WPA: Writing Program Administration, The WAC Journal, constellations, and several edited collections. She teaches courses in first-year writing, cross-cultural rhetorics, history of rhetoric, and writing center studies.Christian Weisser is a professor of English at Penn State Berks. He serves as chair of the Writing and Digital Media Program and coordinator of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program. For more than a decade he has served as editor of Composition Forum, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal in rhetoric and composition. Christian’s research focuses on the relationships between rhetoric and location. His current work investigates the rhetoric of sustainability in higher education. He has published ten books and numerous articles on writing and rhetoric. Christian teaches courses in technical, business, and electronic writing; composition theory; and environmental and sustainability rhetoric.

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