After a passionate and successful career as a college basketball player and a high school coach, Melanie Mayer centered her motivational focus on the classroom, where she has been an inspiring and dedicated English teacher at Port Aransas High School in Port Aransas on the Texas Gulf Coast for more than twenty years. She also serves as an adjunct professor at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas, and has published articles in English Journal and English Leadership Quarterly. Melanie maintains a vision of authentic engagement and meaningful instruction in the writing classroom that enables her students to write both meaningfully and successfully for all purposes. When not teaching,… reading or writing, she enjoys bay fishing and golfing. This is her first book.