Flower, Linda

Linda Flower is a professor of rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University and the author, editor, or coeditor of eight books, including "The Construction of Negotiated Meaning: A Social Cognitive Theory of Writing" (SIU Press). The cofounder of the Community Literacy Center in Pittsburgh, Flower also has served as codirector of the Department of Education7;s National Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy at Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon.