Amy Rupiper Taggart is an Assistant Professor of English at North Dakota State University in Fargo, soon to become the administrator of NDSU’s first-year writing program (Fall 2008). She is a writing studies specialist who teaches a range of undergraduate and graduate courses in writing and literacy studies, including Literacy, Culture, and Identity and Community Engagement in Composition Studies. In her research she focuses primarily on community engagement practices in higher education, particularly as they inform writing instruction. Her articles have appeared in the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Reflections, and several collections, including Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom. She also co-edited the Guide to Composition Pedagogies with Gary Tate and Kurt Schick and the spring 2006 special issue of Reflections on “Rewriting Community Writing and Rhetoric Courses” with Brooke Hessler. In 2007, Rupiper Taggart was part of a US delegation of literacy specialists who participated in a China-US literacy conference in Beijing, China, an opportunity for cross-cultural knowledge exchange and partnership building. A current research project (also with Hessler) is focused on formative assessment practices intended to facilitate classroom communication and lead to informed course revisions. Rupiper Taggart is a co-founder and an advisory board member of Write to Succeed, Inc., a nonprofit company dedicated to improving literacy in communities through the development of programs such as Writing and Reading Partners.