Summer stretches before us, with all its potential for meeting research and writing goals. But if you’re going on the faculty-job market for the first time — as a recent Ph.D. or an advanced doctoral ...

Of course, we know that there is a difference between the letter we write to family and friends which we were taught in school to be informal, and the type that is expected from us when applying for a ...

Quite obviously, an application letter is a formal letter you request to apply for something; a visa, a document, a job, admission into an institution etc. An application simply states why you want ...

Recent discussions of that peculiar beast, genre, have kicked up some questionable observations, among them that genre has ceased to be meaningful when we have what some critics dub "autofiction" (See ...