Authors are responsible for creating the hierarchical set of questions and examples for the SWC paper sessions. To ensure content quality, each author’s teaching background is carefully matched against the type of paper represented.   We are pleased to announce the following experienced SWC authors: 

Andrea Haynes

Andrea Haynes earned her B.A. in 2006 from Ashland University in Ashland , Ohio , where she majored in English and creative writing. During her undergraduate years, she was at various points a reporter, copy editor, and co-editor for the school's newspaper. In 2008, she graduated from SUNY-Binghamton with an M.A. in English and a concentration in creative writing. While a graduate student, she worked as a teaching assistant for courses in children's literature, Shakespeare, and modern literature. She also was a reader for Harpur Palate, the university's literary magazine. Her poetry has been published in the literary magazine Main Channel Voices. She currently lives in Chillicothe, Ohio , which is about an hour's drive from Columbus. In addition to her experience in both writing and evaluating academic essays, Andrea has experience writing poetry and fiction, news and feature articles.

John Langdon , Ph.D.

John W. Langdon earned his Ph.D. in History from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University , where he was a National Defense Fellow. After military service he began teaching at Le Moyne College, where he is now the senior member of the faculty after 38 years of service. He was Le Moyne's Teacher of the Year in 1989 and was named Kevin G. O'Connell Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities in 1996. John was Chair of the Department of History for seven years and Director of the Honors Program for two years. He is the author or co-author of five books, the most recent of which is Connections: A World History, written with Edward H. Judge and designed for the introductory college-level survey in World History. He also teaches a monthly session on world affairs for OASIS, a senior citizens organization in Syracuse ; the session currently enrolls 550 participants. 

Gray Scott, Ph.D.

Gray Scott has been teaching and tutoring writers on and off -- in environments as diverse as schools, military installations, and newsrooms -- for nearly 20 years. Since 2002, his chief areas of interest have been the teaching of writing in disciplines like business and science, and the teaching of team writing, a skill critical to writers in a wide variety of fields. His publications include an article on the teaching of group writing, a chapter on writing annotated bibliographies and literature reviews, for the upcoming 9th edition of the St. Martin's Guide to Writing, and a chapter on technology in the writing classroom for the Instructor's Resource Manual to the 8th edition of the St. Martin 's Guide to Writing. In June 2009, he completed his Ph.D. in English from the University of California , Riverside (UCR). He teaches composition and science writing at the University of California , Riverside , and occasional business writing courses at other universities in the Southern California area.  

Elissa Weeks  

Elissa Weeks is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California , Riverside (UCR) where she also received her M.A. in English.  Elissa earned a B.A. in English from California Baptist University , where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with Special Honors. One of Elissa’s areas of specialization is Rhetoric and Composition, and she has taught all levels of college composition, from remedial to upper-division advanced. She has studied and worked under Prof. Rise B. Axelrod, one of the co-authors of The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing, and Prof. John C. Briggs, the director of UCR’s University Writing Program. Weeks has experience in writing essays, curriculum, textbook evaluations, and textbook manuals.