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power talk
using language to build
authority and influence
SARAH MYERS MCGINTY, .
Chart from THE ORIGINS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,
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To the boys on the team and the girl who coached
Acknowledgments
When readers ask writers, “Is this book about you?,” the an-
swer has to be “Yes!” While the exact relationship between the
written product and the author remains inscrutable—even to
the writer herself—everything in this book connects to what
I’ve seen and thought, done and imagined, heard and listened
for. Done properly, the naming of resources would be an im-
possible task.
Here, then, it must be done improperly. Acknowledging the
inevitable omissions, I thank for their immediate and direct
help my able, patient, and enthusiastic editor Rob McMahon,
as well as Ethan Kline, Rafe Sagalyn, Geoff Colvin, and Justin
Martin. The Expository Writing Program and the Teacher Ed-
ucation Program at Harvard, as well as the staff at Lamont and
Baker libraries, have been important in this work. My research
assistant, Debra Grossman, kept me on track, and I received
invaluable research support from Pat Bellanca, Sarah N.
McGinty, John E. McGinty, Ann Holby, and Christopher Con-
roy. Other important contributo