The time has come to brush the dust off research-writing pedagogy and reimagine it into the twenty-first century classroom with fresh approaches that breathe life into both the papers themselves and the instruction that supports them.

Pavel Zemlianksy is an assistant professor of writing and rhetoric at James Madison University. He is coeditor (with Wendy Bishop) of The Subject Is Research (Boynton/Cook, 2001) as well as author of book chapters and articles on research writing pedagogy and using computers in writing. He also collaborated with Bruce Dick on the publication of The Critical Response to Ishmael Reed (Greenwood, 1999).

Wendy Bishop, former Kellogg Hunt Professor of English at Florida State University, is the author or editor of a number of books, essays, and articles on composition and creative writing pedagogy and writing research, including Acts of Revision; The Subject Is Writing, Third Edition; The Subject Is Story; The Subject Is Research; and The Subject Is Reading, as well as Ethnographic Writing Research, Elements of Alternate Style, and In Praise of Pedagogy, all published by Boynton/Cook.