Kitty O. Locker was an Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University, where she taught courses in workplace discourse and resarch methods. She has also taught at Texas A&M University and the University of Illinois at Urbana. She received her BA from DePauw University and her MC and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana.She is very well known for her research background and her research in progress includes work on collaborative writing in the classroom and the workplace. She has served as the Interim Editor of the Bulletin of the Association of Business Communication and in 1994-5 as President of the Association for Business Communication. From 1997 - 2000, she edited… ABC's Journal of Business Communication.
Jeanine Elise Aunenbsp;is a Senior Lecturer at Iowa State University, where she serves as the Advanced Communication Co-Director and the Coordinator of Learning Community English Links. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Natural Resource & Life Sciences Education, the WAC Journal, and the Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education. She has received several awards for her work with Iowa State's learning communities, including the LAS Learning Community Leadership Award, and in 2017 she received the Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Award from her college.