The College Writer: A Guide to Thinking, Writing, and Researching, Brief (with 2016 MLA Update Card)

About John Van RysPatrick SebranekRandall VanderMeyVerne Meyer

Randall VanderMey is a professor in the department of English at Westmont College in Santa Barbara California. He also has taught composition literature and technical writing at Iowa State University Dordt College and the University of Iowa. Dr. VanderMey earned his M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers'' Workshop and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He is a contributing editor and creative consultant for Write Source. Dr. VanderMey has received numerous fellowships grants and awards for his teaching and poetry. He has published two books of poems GROWING SOUL: A SONG CYCLE GOD TALK and CHARM SCHOOL: FIVE WOMEN OF THE ODYSSEY as well as a commissioned biography MERIZON: THE GREAT JOURNEY. Dr. John Van Rys has taught composition business writing creative writing and literature to college students for more than 30 years. He began his teaching career at Dordt University in Sioux Center Iowa before moving to Redeemer University in Hamilton Ontario in 2005. He earned his M.A. and B.A. from the University of Western Ontario and his Ph.D. from Dalhousie University. Today Dr. Van Rys pursues scholarly work in Canadian literature while also writing fiction and poetry. For more than 20 years he has worked on writing-across-the-curriculum theory and practice on connections between workplace and academic writing. He has also pursued strategies for strengthening varied literacies in students from reading and research to visual literacy. Dr. Van Rys has applied his expertise co-authoring various writing handbooks for students from middle school to college. He has also co-authored an award-winning business-writing handbook for workplace professionals WRITE FOR BUSINESS with UpWrite Press. Patrick Sebranek (M.A. University of Wisconsin LaCrosse) taught English speech and multimedia classes for 16 years at Union Grove High School in Wisconsin. During that time he served as the English department chair and worked on several district-wide projects including a writing-across-the-curriculum program and a K-12 writing sequence. He has studied the works of James Moffett Ken Macrorie Linda Reif Nancie Atwell and many other contemporary educators dealing with writing and learning. Mr. Sebranek is an author and editorial director for the Write Source Educational Publishing House and works closely with teachers and educators on all new and revised handbooks and sourcebooks. Dr. Verne Meyer is an educator and businessperson. For nine years he taught English in high schools in Michigan and Wisconsin. In addition for fifteen years he taught dramatic literature theater history and composition at Dordt University in Iowa. In 1977 partnering with Mr. Sebranek Dr. Meyer co-founded Write Source Educational Publishing House now a subsidiary of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Supplemental. Dr. Meyer earned his B.A. from Calvin College his M.A. from Marquette University and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. In addition to this text he has co-authored a number of texts for college students including THE COLLEGE WRITER''S HANDBOOK COMP THE BUSINESS WRITER and WRITE FOR WORK. To meet the needs of students in grades 8 through 12 he has co-authored WRITERS INC SCHOOL TO WORK WRITE FOR COLLEGE and a number of Write Source textbooks. Dr. Meyer''s publications for businesspeople include WRITE FOR BUSINESS and EFFECTIVE EMAIL MADE EZ. Dr. Meyer is currently a contributing editor for Write Source and UpWrite Press. He is also a featured speaker in the School Improvement Network''s instructional videos Writing Across the Curriculum.