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Roy Peter Clark

Roy Peter Clark has taught writing at The Poynter Institute for more than thirty years, and now serves as its vice president and senior scholar.  He is the author or editor of fifteen books on writing and journalism, including Writing Tools and The Glamour of Grammar.  He is the creator of the National Writers Workshops and is a member of the Feature Writing Hall of Fame.  His work has been featured on the Today show, NPR , and the Oprah Winfrey Show.  His podcasts of writing tools have been downloaded more than a million times.

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Virginia Clark

Virginia Clark was a professor of English at the University of Vermont and served as chair of the English department. With Paul Eschholz and Alfred Rosa, she is the coauthor of Language Awareness, Ninth Edition.

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Charles Clark

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Edward J. Clarke

Edward Clarke is Chair, Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Vanguard University.  He received his Ph.D., M.M.F.T., and M.A. degrees from the University of Southern California. Dr. Clarke is the author of several articles, and Deviant Behavior: A Text-Reader in the Sociology of Deviance (Worth Publishers).  Dr. Clarke's specializations include deviance, juvenile delinquency, marriage and family therapy, marriage and the family, and inequality.

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Patrick Clauss

Patrick Clauss is the Director of First Year Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Notre Dame. He studies the relationships among argumentation theory, composition theory and pedagogy, and rhetoric. He teaches undergraduate writing and rhetoric courses and a graduate practicum on the teaching of writing. His most recently scholarly work addresses the roles of informal logic and critical thinking in the composition classroom.

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John Clifford

John Clifford (PhD, New York University) is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Editor of The Experience of Reading: Louis Rosenblatt and Reader-Response Theory, he has published numerous scholarly articles on pedagogy, critical theory, and composition theory, most recently in College English; Relations, Locations, Positions: Composition Theory for Writing Teachers; and in The Norton Book of Composition Studies.

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William C. Cockerham

William S. Cockerham holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.  He is Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Medicine, and Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and was the 2004 recipient of the university's Ireland Award for Scholarly Distinction.  His recent books include Medical Sociology, 10th edition (2006), The Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology (2005), and the Sociology of Mental Disorder, 7th edition (2004).

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Michael J. Cody

Michael J. Cody (PhD, Michigan State University) is Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He is the author of six books, more than twenty book chapters, and over forty articles published in journals such as Communication Quarterly, Communication Education, and the Journal of Health Communication.  Cody is interested in axonomies of messages in either compliance gaining (seeking one’s goals) or in accounts (offering explanations for one’s actions) when individuals pursue goals in real life contexts such as flirting, relational dissolution, sales encounters, traffic court, child custody mediations, and in health maintenance contexts. Cody is currently involved in a number of projects using entertainment as a means to educate viewers, including educating viewers about breast cancer and infectious diseases.

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Patricia Cline Cohen

Patricia Cline Cohen (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005–2006. She has written A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America and The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York, and she has coauthored The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York.

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Samuel Cohen

Samuel Cohen (PhD, City University of New York) is Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Missouri, where he won the 2008 Provost's Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award. He is the author of After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s (University of Iowa Press, 2009) and has published in such journals as Novel, Clio, Twentieth-Century Literature, The Journal of Basic Writing, and Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists. He is coauthor of Literature: The Human Experience, Tenth Edition and 50 Essays.

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James William Coleman

James William Coleman was born in 1947 and grew up in Los Angeles, California.  He received an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.  He is currently Professor of Sociology at the California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, where he teaches courses in criminology, global problems, social psychology, and the sociology of religion, and conducts research in the areas of white-collar crime, religion and society, and international development.  He is the author of numerous articles on white-collar crime and other subjects, which have appeared in such journals as Social Problems and the American Journal of Sociology.  In addition to The Criminal Elite, he is the author of Social Problems (Prentice-Hall, 2005), now in its ninth edition, and The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient Tradition (Oxford, 2001).

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Gary Colombo

Gary Colombo is professor of English at Los Angeles City College. He has published Mind Readings: An Anthology for Writers (2002), and with Bonnie Lisle and Sandra Mano, Frame Work: Culture, Storytelling and College Writing (1997), both for Bedford/St. Martins.

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COMAP

COMAP--the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications-- is an award-winning non-profit organization whose mission is to improve mathematics education for students of all ages. Since 1980, COMAP has worked with teachers, students, and business people to create learning environments where mathematics is used to investigate and model real issues in our world.

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