Teresa Henning received her MA (1991) and PhD (1998) from Purdue University’s Rhetoric and Composition Program and is associate professor of English and Director of the Professional Writing and Communication Major at Southwest Minnesota State University where she teaches: first-year and advanced composition, practicum for tutoring writing, copy editing, business and technical writing, the theory and practice of professional writing, and rhetoric, literacy and the teaching of writing (an online Master’s course for secondary education teachers).
She has published about the teaching of writing and writing assessment in: The Writing Lab Newsletter, English Journal, English Leadership Quarterly, Teaching English at the Two-Year College, Journal of Effective Teaching, NCTE’s lesson plan website, ReadWriteThink, and has a chapters in Writing and the iGeneration: Composition in the Computer-Mediated Classroom and What are We Becoming: Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors.