Blue Workbook: A Complete Course for Young Writers, Aspiring Rhetoricians, and Anyone Else Who Needs to Understand How English Works

About Amanda Saxon DeanAudrey AndersonPatty RebneSusan Wise Bauer

Susan Wise Bauer is an educator and academic who has worked with parents and students for more than twenty years. She taught at the College of William and Mary in Virginia for fifteen years. Her previous best-selling titles for Norton include The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had Rethinking School The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory and the History of the World series Audrey Anderson is an international development professional specializing in programming for women and girls. Her background includes program design strategy management and evaluation with field experience in gender-focused programming and education in Latin America Africa and Asia. In addition to Audrey's work with the Well-Trained Mind she has contributed to the development of curricula for life skills programs for adolescent girls around the world. Audrey holds a bachelors degree from the College of William & Mary and a masters in International Education and Development from George Washington University. Patty Rebne grew up in Colorado where she earned a BA and an MBA. Most of her grammar she learned from her mother an award-winning journalist. To earn a living Patty taught high school delivered packages for UPS marketed and sold software as a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft inscribed Christmas cards and wrote fortune-cookie fortunes. She and her husband Glenn live near Seattle; they have a grown son who was mostly homeschooled guided by The Well Trained Mind with generous additions of ski days and road-trips. Patty likes the physical action of handwriting and does photography and cross stitch in her ample spare time.