1. How I became a teacher of composition / Edward P.J. Corbett -- 2. Getting to know rhetorica / Janice Lauer -- 3. Looking at writing : writing what I see / Charles Bazerman -- 4. Heart of gold / Wendy Bishop -- 5. The zen of writing as social/symbolic action / Richard M. Coe -- 6. Truth or consequences / William A. Covino -- 7. In search of the American dream / Frank J. D'Angelo -- 8. The curious case of Harry Caplan's hat, or, How I fell in love with rhetoric / Richard Leo Enos -- 9. Road rhetoric : recollecting, recomposing, remaneuvering / Theresa Enos -- 10. How way leads on to way / Richard Fulkerson -- 11. A backward look at 55 years of teaching writing : 1941-1996 / James L. Kinneavy -- 12. Doing as one likes / Richard Lloyd-Jones -- 13. The education of a Wisconsin farm boy / Duane H. Roen -- 14. Close reading : accounting for my life teaching writing / John Trimbur -- 15. Love, lust, rhetorics (from double binds to intensities) / Victor J. Vitanza -- 16. Technology/writing/identity in composition and rhetoric studies : working in the indicative mood / Kathleen E. Welch -- 17. On being a writer, being a teacher of writing / Edward M. White -- 18. The long look back / Winifred Bryan Horner -- 19. Have rhetoric, will travel / Stuart C. Brown