About the Authors

Teena A. M. Carnegie
As an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Oregon State University, Professor Carnegie is working to integrate computer technology into the professional writing curriculum. Her research interests include rhetoric, distance education policy, virtual classroom pedagogy, feminist rhetoric, and rhetorical theories of technology.

Amy C. Kimme Hea
As an Assistant Professor in the Rhetoric, Composition, and Teaching of English program at University of Arizona, Professor Kimme Hea is pursuing the development of graduate-level support for professional writing and computers and composition and the creation of an undergraduate professional writing certificate. Her research interests include critical technological literacies, teacher training, professional writing, and computers and composition.

Melinda Turnley
As an Assistant Professor in the Division of Rhetoric and Composition at The University of Texas at Austin, Professor Turnley continues her interest in technology training. Her current research highlights critical approaches to teaching with/about various media in writing classrooms.

David Menchaca
David is a graduate student at the University of Arizona where he is completing a PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English. He currently teaches and is further developing/critiquing the English Department's online Business Writing course. His research interests include rhetorics of technology, interface design and critique, computers and composition, and professional writing.

A special thanks to Karalee James, a graduate student at Oregon State University, for her assistance with the research on funding teacher technology training and the design of the budget worksheet.