If at First You Don't Succeed? Writing, Rhetoric, and the Question of Failure

Steven J. Corbett is Associate Professor of Composition & Rhetoric; Division Head of Communication, Composition & Rhetoric; and Writing Program Administrator at Methodist University. From 2016-2023, he was an Associate Professor of English and Director of the QEP at Texas A&M University at Kingsville. He is the author of Beyond Dichotomy: Synergizing Writing Center and Classroom Pedagogies (2015) and co-editor of Peer Pressure, Peer Power: Theory and Practice in Peer Review and Response for the Writing Classroom (2014); Student Peer Review and Response: A Critical Sourcebook(2018); Writing In and About the Performing and Visual Arts: Creating, Performing, and Teaching (2019); and Writing Centers and Learning Commons: Staying Centered While Sharing Common Ground (2023). His articles on writing pedagogy have appeared in a variety of journals, periodicals, and collections.