Dr. Dorinda Clippinger earned business education degrees from Shippensburg Universityof Pennsylvania and Indiana University-Bloomington; taught information management in Western Kentucky University’s College of Business Administration; and managed titles and development teams at South-Western Publishing Co. before founding Penworthy Learning Systems, a consultancy for instructional materials publishers. As a Lecturer in Management, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina for 11 years, she taught professional communication, including report writing and presentation. She is a 16-year member of Association for Business Communication. After contributing to two editions of Contemporary Business Report Writing, Dr. Clippinger coauthored with Dr. Shirley Kuiper the 5th edition of Contemporary Business Reports.