ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Shirley Drew is a professor of communication at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas. The author is grateful to colleagues who provided suggestions on earlier (and much longer) drafts of this article: Laura Ellingson, Carolyn Ellis, H. L. (Bud) Goodall, Joyce Hocker, Melanie Mills, and the late Karen Stolz. She is also grateful for the encouragement and support she received from a former student, Travis Wallace, and especially from her sister, Catherine Drew Wermert.