Sharon Cavusgil is a senior lecturer in the Department of Applied Linguistics & ESL at Georgia State University, where she has been employed since 1993. She has taught courses and guest lectured in the department's Intensive English Program, ESL credit-bearing program, and Master's degree program. In addition to teaching, she has served in a number of administrative roles, including assistant director of special programs, director of the Intensive English Program, and currently director of ESL graduate and undergraduate courses. She is also involved with the university's Early College High School Initiative. Ms. Cavusgil is author/coauthor of several ESL textbooks, including College Writing 4 (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) and Looking Ahead: Introduction to Academic Writing (Heinle & Heinle, 1998). Her areas of interest include curriculum design, academic writing, and the transition from high school to college studies.