The authors would like to thank the Minnesota State Educational Innovations unit for funding and supporting this project. We would also like to thank Karen Pikula and Lake Superior College for their support.

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Kelli Hallsten Erickson has been teaching developmental writing, Composition I and II, and a variety of literature courses at the two-year level for twenty years. She is currently at Lake Superior College, encouraging students to stay warm during the long winter by keeping their fingers burning across their keyboards, constructing interesting essays.

Amy Jo Swing has been teaching writing and English since 1993. She holds a B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Purdue University and an M.F.A. in Poetry Writing from Texas State University San Marcos. She teaches writing and literature classes at Lake Superior College in Duluth, Minnesota, where she is also a writer of poetry and middle grade/young adult fiction.