Timothy Sharkey has taught English 101 and English 102 classes in college for over 15 years. He has a Master of Liberal Arts degree in English & American Literature & Language from Harvard University. He has developed a skill in taking the complicated information about writing and simplifying it for the demanding students enrolled in his classes. He believes that the good information about writing should be easy to find in one book, and he has compiled that information throughout his 15 years of teaching. Writing Made Easy: Just the Basics is the culmination of Timothy Sharkey’s 15-year effort to put the good information about writing into one book.