Biography: Alan G. Gross is a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Trained as a literary scholar, he drifted into his current specialty, scientific communication, writing The Rhetoric of Science himself, and Communicating Science, The Scientific Literature, and The Craft of Scientific Communication in collaboration with his long-term writing partner, Joseph Harmon. His latest collaboration, Science from Sight to Insight: How Scientists Illustrate Meaning will be published by the University of Chicago Press this fall. His next collaboration, How We Know: The Internet Revolution in Science and Scholarship, is also due for completion in draft this fall.