About MeAs you will gather from reading this site, I am an academic with somewhat odd interests, although if you share the interest in vampires, I guess it's not so odd. I teach at an Oregon Community College, where my two "Vampires in Literature" classes allow students to explore the vampiric creations of many different authors.This site began as a support site for those students, and expands based upon their needs. I noted a few things happening in the classroom: Often my students simply couldn't handle the sometimes archaic language of the older vampiric works, and they -- often coming in fairly untrained in writing college level essays (and these are credit bearing classes so essay writing does happen)-- needed a bit more guidance in the expectation department as to what exactly was expected in different modal essays, and exactly how to produce the required essays. Since I have to/get to read the essays they hand in, the writing section of the site is expanding at a fairly good clip. I am lucky enough to have a department that allows me a certain latitude in my advertising and display, I occasionally get to allow my creative side to have full reign, such as in this display...
It is from this class, which is full of really good creative writers, that I am pulling from for the next few months monthly stories. I am honored to be able to teach students who are as interested in the vampires as I am. My other specialty is equally odd -- grammar (although I do teach the occasional College Composition course). so it is actually pretty funny when I screw up the typing and sentences as I do. Oh, and if you absolutely must have a name, I am Leslie Ormandy. And if you simply must reach me please use the contact form (or find me at my college via internet!).
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