Dr. Irene L. Clark is Professor of English and Director of Composition at California State University Northridge, where she is also in charge of the Master's degree in Rhetoric and Composition option. She has published in College Composition and Communication, Profession, Composition Forum, and The Writing Center Journal, and has written several books that focus on writing and the teaching of writing, including Concepts in Composition: Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing, Writing in the Center, and The Genre of Argument.