Timothy Sharkey

Timothy Sharkey (author) has a Master of Liberal Arts degree in English & American Literature & Language from Harvard University. He has taught English 101 and English 102 classes in college for over 15 years. 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.

Timothy Sharkey had a hard time finding useful information about writing when he was a graduate student in college. He scrambled to find useful information about writing as well when he produced handouts for his students in the English 101 and English 102 classes he later taught in college. The 800-page English 101 classroom textbooks he had to use contained surprisingly little information about writing and included mostly reading material involving comprehension. He was frustrated with this. He knew early on that he would have to compile a “just-the-basics” approach to writing himself and include only the good information about writing that he could find. Writing Made Easy: Just the Basics is that book. It contains only the essential and required information about writing that people need to know to be able to write successfully, and it eliminates the complicated information that gets in the way.