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Acknowledgments

It is not until you undertake a project like this that you realize how much you must rely on the selfless efforts of others. Though only my name appears on the cover as the author of this book, I can never justifiably claim sole authorship. I owe the completion of this book project to a number of people, to whom no language is adequate to express my deep-felt gratitude.

This book originated in my dissertation work at Purdue, so my first word of thanks goes to the members of my dissertation committee: Patricia Sullivan, James Porter, Janice Lauer, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, and Tony Silva. Their insightful comments and advice molded my initial thinking on the project and helped lay a solid foundation for this book.

I am also deeply grateful to my colleagues at Georgia State University, especially to Randy Malamud and George Pullman for their constant moral support and encouragement, which provided me with much of the strength and resolve I needed to complete the project; to my Rhetoric and Composition colleagues for their help and advice in many facets of my professional life, and to Angela Hall-Godsey for taking care of much of the drudgery work of Lower Division Studies so that I could concentrate on this book.

I owe a special thank-you to the staff at Parlor Press, especially to editor David Blakesley for steering me along the right course throughout this publication process and making it basically painless, to the two anonymous reviewers for their selfless work and very helpful advice on improving my manuscript, and to copyeditor Rebecca Longster for her meticulous attention to details and her overall excellent job, which has spared me a lot of embarrassment.

My final word of thanks goes to my family—my wife, Li, and my children, Shelly and Shawn—whose patience and moral support have made this project possible.