Acknowledgments

Like most writing, this work is a collaborative effort among many faculty, staff, and students at Baruch. Thanks to the members of our Department's Composition Committee, who served as our editorial board, for their feedback, advice, and support. Thanks especially to our colleagues Tim Aubry, Brooke Schreiber, and Jackie Stowers for their meticulous and incredibly helpful close readings of the text-in-progress, and to English Department Chair Jessica Lang, for her untiring support for student writing at Baruch and this project in particular. Thanks to our late colleague Ellen Lask, whose editorial work on the first edition in 2018 made this project much better than it otherwise would have been.

Thanks to Associate Provost Dennis Slavin and the Schwartz Communications Institute for their support for our Writing Program faculty and student writing at Baruch. Thanks to the dedicated faculty members who teach First-Year Writing at Baruch for their insights, feedback, and editorial work on this project. And thanks to our students, who make being at CUNY a privilege, and who teach us every day.

We also want to acknowledge a debt of gratitude to Dr. Brenda Helmbrecht, Director of Writing at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, for her advice during the development of this reader, and to their student writing publication Fresh Voices: Composition at Cal Poly for design inspiration. Dedicated to Mina Shaughnessy (1924–1978)