Acknowledgments owe much to Assistant Vice Chancellor Jim Turner,emeriti professor and mentor extraordinaire,who incubated the writing workshop at UCLA with me;to Vice Chancellor Claudia Mitchell-Kernan,who hired me to teach the workshop for the UCLA Graduate Division for ten years;to UCLA Extension Program Writing Director Linda Venis,who hired me to teach for the first time;and to Elin Skaar,who brought me to teach the workshop in Norway. Many thanks to my writing group,Harryette Mullen,Alice Wexler, Kathleen McHugh,Mary Bush,and Ellen Krout-Hasegawa,for reading early drafts and offering essential suggestions;to Judith Stevenson for keep- ing me going with daily encouragement;and to Bonnie Berry-Lamon,fel- low writer,for being there since ninth grade and negotiating the contract. For anecdotes,advice,encouragement,or invaluable assistance,thanks to Sana Abasher,Ali Behdad,D.Christopher Belcher,John H.Belcher,Zara Bennett,Erica Bochanty,Jean Arnold,Martha Banta,Haeng-ja Chung,Helen Deutsch,JaneAnn Dill,Cynthia Feliciano,Stefan Frazier,the late Guillermo E.Hernandez,Ruth E.Iskin,Meg Powers Livingston,Suzanne L'Oiseaux, Bharati Mandapati,Janice Molloy,Peter McLaren,Tammi Monsanto,Angela Nonaka,Chon A.Noriega,Paul Ong,Carrie Petrucci,Samantha Pinto,Mark Quigley,Karen Quintiliani,Sam See,Sean Silver,Vivian Sobchack,Guri Ste- gali,Liz Taylor,Ward Thomas,Juliet Williams,and Alayne Yonemoto Thanks also to the wonderful folks at Sage,including its editors Lisa Cuevas Shaw and John Szilagyi;its directors Alison Mudditt,Jim Brace-Thompson, and Blaise Simqu;the book's shepherds MaryAnn Vail,Cassandra Seibel, Stephanie Adams,and Belinda Thresher;its copyeditor Belea T.Keeney;its proofreader Lisa Allen;and its compositor/designer Trice Atkinson. For enabling me to teach the workshop in Africa,I am especially grate- ful to friends at the Chr.Michelsen Institute in Bergen,including Siri Glop- pen,Pavla Jezkova,Lise Rakner,Elin Skaar,Gunnar M.Sorbo,Lars G. Svasand,and Arne Tostensen,and to all the workshop participants in Sudan and Malawi,including Abdel Ghaffar Ahmed,Sana Abasher,Nan- dini Patel,and the late Nixon Khembo.I wish I could thank all my students by name;each one of them made this book stronger. iⅸ-(!) Acknowledl!ments I owe much to Assistant Vice Chancellor Jim Turner, emeriti professor and mentor extraordinaire, who incubated the writing workshop at UCLA with me; to Vice Chancellor Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, who hired me to teach the workshop for the UCLA Graduate Division for ten years; to UCLA Extension Program Writing Director Linda Venis, who hired me to teach for the first time; and to Elin Skaar, who brought me to teach the workshop in Norway. Many thanks to my writing group, Harryette Mullen, Alice Wexler, Kathleen McHugh, Mary Bush, and Ellen Krout-Hasegawa, for reading early drafts and offering essential suggestions; to Judith Stevenson for keep￾ing me going with daily encouragement; and to Bonnie Berry-Lamon, fel￾low writer, for being there since ninth grade and negotiating the contract. For anecdotes, advice, encouragement, or invaluable assistance, thanks to Sana Abasher, Ali Behdad, D. Christopher Belcher, John H. Belcher, Zara Bennett, Erica Bochanty, Jean Arnold, Martha Banta, Haeng-ja Chung, Helen Deutsch, JaneAnn Dill, Cynthia Feliciano, Stefan Frazier, the late Guillermo E. Hernandez, Ruth E. !skin, Meg Powers Livingston, Suzanne L'Oiseaux, Bharati Mandapati, Janice Molloy, Peter McLaren, Tammi Monsanto, Angela Nonaka, Chon A. Noriega, Paul Ong, Carrie Petrucci, Samantha Pinto, Mark Quigley, Karen Quintiliani, Sam See, Sean Silver, Vivian Sobchack, Guri Ste￾gali, Liz Taylor, Ward Thomas, Juliet Williams, and Alayne Yonemoto. Thanks also to the wonderful folks at Sage, including its editors Lisa Cuevas Shaw and John Szilagyi; its directors Alison Mudditt, Jim Brace-Thompson, and Blaise Simqu; the book's shepherds Mary Ann Vail, Cassandra Seibel, Stephanie Adams, and Belinda Thresher; its copyeditor Belea T. Keeney; its proofreader Lisa Allen; and its compositor I designer Trice Atkinson. For enabling me to teach the workshop in Africa, I am especially grate￾ful to friends at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, including Siri Glop￾pen, Pavla Jezkova, Lise Rakner, Elin Skaar, Gunnar M. S0rb0, Lars G. Svasand, and Arne Tostensen, and to all the workshop participants in Sudan and Malawi, including Abdel Ghaffar Ahmed, Sana Abasher, Nan￾dini Patel, and the late Nixon Khembo. I wish I could thank all my students by name; each one of them made this book stronger. Ix