David R. Russell is a professor of English at Iowa State University, where he teaches rhetoric and professional communication. He has published many articles on writing across the curriculum and has coedited "Landmark Essays on Writing Across the Curriculum, "a special issue of "Mind, Culture, and Activity, "and "Writing and Learning in Cross-National Perspective: Transitions from Secondary to Higher Education. "He has given workshops and lectures on writing across the curriculum nationally and internationally, and he was the first Knight Visiting Scholar in Writing at Cornell University. ...