Dr. Jean Reynolds is Professor Emeritus at Polk State College in Winter Haven, Florida, where she taught English for over thirty years. She is the author of eleven books, including two writing textbooks, and she is co-author (with the late Mary Mariani) of Police Talk (Pearson).

She has taught basic education to inmates and served as a consultant on communications and problem-solving skills to staff in Florida's Department of Corrections. At Polk State College she has taught report writing classes for recruits and advanced report writing and FTO classes for police and correctional officers.

Jean Reynolds holds a doctorate in English from the University of South Florida and is an internationally recognized Shaw scholar. She is the author of Pygmalion's Wordplay: The Postmodern Shaw, published by the University Press of Florida.

She is an accomplished ballroom dancer. She and her husband, garden writer Charles J. Reynolds, live in Florida, where they enjoy reading and traveling.

For more writing practice and updated information about report writing, visit www.YourPoliceWrite.com.

Instructors can download free instructional material by sending an email from an official account to jreynoldswrite@aol.com.