About The Author:
Kate Mangelsdorf is an associate professor of English and director of
developmental English at the University of Texas at El Paso. She was formerly
coordinator of ESL writing at the University of Arizona. Mangelsdorf has
published articles in the Journal of Second Language Writing, English Language
Teaching Journal, and Teaching English in the Two Year College, and she has
contributed chapters to a number of books, including Two-Year College English:
Essays for a New Century, A Sense of Audience in Written Communication, and
Writing in Multicultural Settings.