A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S

The rhetorical choices in this piece (hence anything to which you wish to respond or make corrections) are all mine, but the photographs and flesh are of people close to me who wish to remain anonymous; thank you to them for being willing.

Thank you to Dennis Lynch for multiple readings, dinners, conversations, and continual encouragement.

I owe tremendous thanks to Jim Kalmbach for encouragement and close reading: this piece would not be here if he hadn't written kind things early on (when I thought I was nearly finished...).

Johndan Johnson-Eilola, as always, gave time, encouragement, and necessary hubris.

Thank you to Teena Carnegie for the scarific imaginings, which led to large chunks of this piece — and thanks to all the other fine participants in the Computers in Writing-Intensive Classrooms New Media workshop, Houghton, MI, June 2002: Kate Agena, Robin Breault, Ellen Cushman, Danielle DeVoss, Scott DeWitt, Jeff Grabill, Amy Kimme Hea, Madeleine Sorapure, Pam Takayoshi, Melinda Turnley, Thomas Meal, Matt Hill, and Cyndi Weber. None of this would have been possible without their enthusiasm, encouragement, and creative moves.

I presented this piece, in less colorful, less animated, structures at the Association for Internet Researchers conference in Minneapolis, 2001, and at the Computers and Writing Conference in Normal, 2002. I give edgily qualified thanks to those who responded to the piece in its earlier formulations: thanks for pushing so well on my ideas, but not for those nights I couldn't sleep while trying to think up sharper responses.