David Beard is an professor of rhetoric in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth. I have published in journals like the International Journal of Listening, Archival Science, Philosophy and Rhetoric (where I won the Rohrer Award with my co-author, William Keith), Southern Journal of Communication, and Enculturation, among other venues. Additionally, I have placed essays in What We Are Becoming: Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors (USUP), Engaging Audience: Writing in an Age of New Literacies (NCTE), Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum (Boynton/Cook) and the SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studies. With Richard Enos, I edited Advances in the History of Rhetoric (Parlor Press).