My Writing: A Career As An English Activist

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Please excuse this late communication, as I am now retired from Wiley College and appreciate solitude. Therefore, I can best be reached via email. Nonetheless, when I served as Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities, I became intrigued with Ms. Sanders’s advanced scholarship and recommended her for hire as an English Instructor, fall 2010. While observing her in the course of that semester, I immediately noticed that she exuded the following characteristics: audaciousness, grit, and tenacity. I am not an individual that is easily impressed, but I was. Ms. Sanders’s purpose is clear; her major strengths lie in her ability to explain complex theories and ideas to students, incorporate her skills in the dramatic arts into her lesson plans, and

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