This page describes your ethos as a writer. What background and experiences do you bring to your writing? Does your course work or major have relevance to your ethos? Do your experiences in the arts and humanities, in business, or in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics add ethos? Do jobs, internships, or volunteer positions help to create ethos? What else would help to build your ethos as a writer?

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Susan Naomi Bernstein’s most recent book is Teaching Developmental Writing, Fourth Edition. She has published in Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Writing, and Service Learning, Journal of Basic Writing, Modern Language Studies, and elsewhere, and has an essay forthcoming in Community College Moment . Susan currently is a lecturer at Arizona State University in Tempe, and co-coordinates the Stretch Writing Program. This year she is teaching a section of Stretch at an American Indian Community in central Arizona, as well as a new practicum course in teaching Basic Writing.