The Composition of Everyday Life, Brief, 2009 MLA Update Edition
John Mauk is the writing director at Northwestern Michigan College where he teaches first-year college composition and advanced rhetoric. He has an MA in language and literature from the University of Toledo and a PhD in rhetoric and writing from Bowling Green State University. His publications include an article on critical geography and composition (College English, March 2003), The Composition of Everyday Life: A Guide to Writing (Cengage, © 2014), and Inventing Arguments (Cengage, © 2013). In 2004, Mauk was awarded Imogene Wise Instructor of the Year at NMC.John Metz has a B.A. in English from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania (1983) and an M.A. in English from the University of Toledo (1985). He has taught first-year writing for over 20 years and currently teaches at Kent State University at Geauga.