Allison D. Smith is Professor of English and Coordinator of Graduate Teaching Assistants at Middle Tennessee State University. She received a BA in Teaching Language and Composition and an MA in Applied Linguistics from California State University, Long Beach, and a PhD in Applied Linguistics/Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education from The University of Illinois, UrbanaaChampaign. Her primary teaching and research areas include writing pedagogy, writing about pop culture, writing assessment, discourse analysis, and pedagogical grammar. Recent publications include a book chapter in M...