The late Kenneth W. Houp was Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.

Thomas E. Pearsall is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota and has also written:

 
• How to Write for the World of Work, 6/e (Heinle 2000)
 
• The Elements of Technical Writing, 2/e (Longman, 2000) and
 
• Fundamentals of Good Writing, with Donald Cunningham (Prentice Hall, 1988).

Elizabeth Tebeaux is Director of Distance Education and Professor of English at Texas A&M University and has also written:

   
• Design of Business Communications: The Process and the Product (Prentice Hall, 1990), and
 
• The Emergence of a Tradition: Technical Writing in the English Renaissance, 1475-1640 (Baywood, 1996).

Sam Dragga is Professor of English at Texas Tech University and has also written:

   
• Editing: The Design of Rhetoric, with Gwendolyn Gong (Baywood, 1989),
 
• A Reader's Repertoire: Aims and Perspectives, with Gwendolyn Gong. (HarperCollins, 1996),
 
• A Reader's Repertoire: Purpose and Focus, with Gwendolyn Gong (HarperCollins, 1997), and
 
• A Writer's Repertoire, with Gwendolyn Gong (Addison-Wesley, 2000).

Professors Pearsall, Tebeaux, and Dragga are all past presidents of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.