Authoring: An Essay for the English Profession on Potentiality and Singularity

About the Authors

Ab O UT TH e AUTHO R s Janis Haswell is a professor of English at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in British literature for the English Department and composition in the university’s First-Year Program. She is the author of Introduction to the Raj Quartet (1985), Pressed Against Divinity: W. B. Yeats and the Feminine Mask (1997), Paul Scott’s Philosophy of Place(s): the Fiction of Relationality (2002), as well as some thirty articles in both literature and composition. She is currently the review editor for The Journal of Teaching Writing. Her administrative titles have included assistant chair of the department of humanities , coordinator of the English graduate program, and director of the university honors program. She received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Humanities in 2002, and the University’s Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activity Award in 2003. She was also a faculty fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004. ricHard Haswell, now emeritus, was for twenty-nine years at Washington State University, where he directed the composition program and the cross-campus writing-assessment program, and taught courses in rhetoric, romanticism, and postmodern literature. He then spent nine years at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, where he held the Haas Professorship of English and added courses in young-adult literature, contemporary poetry, and language in society. He is author of Gaining Ground in College Writing: Tales of Development and Interpretation (1991) and co-editor of The HBJ Reader (1987), Comp Tales: An Introduction to College Composition through its Stories (2000), Beyond Outcomes: Assessment and Instruction within a University Writing Program (2001), and Machine Scoring of Student Essays: Truth and Consequence (2006). His journal publications range from studies of Baudelaire’s plagiarisms , to quantitative experiments in the evaluation of second-language student writing, to translations from the French and the Spanish. In 2000, with colleague Glenn Blalock, he launched CompPile, an online, open-access bibliography of scholarship in composition and rhetoric, now the largest and most utilized in the field. ...