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Although trained in theoretical linguistics, I found myself a number of years ago teaching in and coordinating a professional writing program in a large public university. As a neophyte writing program administrator, I was intrigued to discover that the teachers and scholars in the program hadn’t collectively settled on an answer to the question that serves as the title of this book. Indeed, they seemed surprised that the question should even be asked, the prevailing attitude being that it’s natural for people to differ about what the “good” in good writing refers to, since it’s inevitably a matter of taste. And at any rate, they felt an educator’s professional concern should be more about improving whatever skills students brought to class rather than worrying about something so abstract. There were personal opinions, of course—some quite strongly held—and I was treated to lively discussions about types of pedagogy that might be more or less useful in the writing classroom. I read articles in College English, WPA Journal, and College Composition and Communication (CCC) as an outsider, but with interest.
