Keywords: Academic Labor, Adequacy, Success, Failure, Writing. Timothy Oleksiak is associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston and recipient of the 2025 CCCC Stonewall Service Award. Joshua Barsczewski is assistant professor of English literatures and writing and Writing Program director at Muhlenberg College. Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition proposes a fresh approach to teaching rhetoric and composition—a field awash with unrealistic labor expectations and untenable and often unattainable requirements for both the educator and the educated—that takes “success” and “failure” out of the equation and advocates for the concept of adequacy over that of perfection. For more information visit [email protected] and follow @thebigrhet.