| 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 ESL credit-bearing program, Intensive English 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, founding director of the Intensive English Program, and founding director of ESL graduate and undergraduate courses. 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 program development, curriculum design, academic writing, and the transition from high school to college studies. |  |