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Dana Ferris is Professor in the University Writing Program at the University of California, Davis, where she directs the second language writing program. An applied linguist by training (University of California, Davis), she has focused extensively in her research on response to student writing and the specific application of corrective feedback to help students develop linguistic accuracy especially in their writing. Her books include Written Corrective Feedback in Second Language Acquisition and Writing (with John Bitchener, Routledge, 2012); Treatment of Error in Second Language Student Writing (2nd Ed. Michigan, 2011); Teaching L2 Composition: Purpose, Process, and Practice (with John Hedgcock, Routledge, 2014), and a student text, Language Power: Tutorials for Writers (Bedford St. Martin’s, 2014). She is also the founding editor-in-chief of the new Journal of Response to Writing (journalrw.org).