Kate Mangelsdorf is an associate professor of English and director of developmental English at the University of Texas at El Paso. She was formerly coordinator of ESL writing at the University of Arizona. Mangelsdorf has published articles in the Journal of Second Language Writing, English Language Teaching Journal, and Teaching English in the Two Year College, and she has contributed chapters to a number of books, including Two-Year College English: Essays for a New Century, A Sense of Audience in Written Communication, and Writing in Multicultural Settings.