She is committed to creating classroom experiences that foster students’ self-awareness of the rhetorical moves they and others make in their texts. Michelle wants students to learn how to think and feel more like writers/communicators than they already do so they can more effectively participate in life and work. This goal is best achieved through a process of negotiation with interested readers who both challenge and affirm the writing choices students make in different situations. Through peer review workshops, collaborative classroom conversations, research and revision, students in Professor Deal’s classes create and analyze dynamic social relationships among authors, readers, texts and contexts.