By TIM RATH

Web Editor

Heads up: If you are looking to find a job in this country besides flipping burgers, you need to know how to write.

Fear not, even if you’re not necessarily Pablo Neruda, there is help on campus to develop your skills so that they are good enough to find a job (even one in this state is possible!).

Professor Pamela Mitzelfeld is one of the people who can help. As assistant director of the Writing Center at Oakland University, she’s happy to sit down with any student that needs help with writing assignments, from thesis papers to putting your name on the right line. As a professor in the English department and Honors College, she helps the next generation of John Steinbecks with both reading and writing. Listen and learn, kiddies.

1. What do you teach?

I teach Writing About Literature, Advanced Critical Writing, Business Writing, and a thesis proposal course for the Honors College.

2. Who in your field inspires you to teach?

I was a student of many of my colleagues. Their intelligence and dedication inspired me to teach.

3. What is on your reading list?

On my reading list? Student papers! I do intend to read a biography of Andrew Jackson (recently purchased).

4. Could you describe what you do at OU in one sentence?

I try to be a strong contributor to our community of learners

5. What is your favorite OU sport to watch live?

Men’s basketball

6. It’s lunchtime and you’re hungry. Have you packed your own lunch, are you going to the OC or are you ordering out?

I usually pack my lunch and then forget to bring it, so I mostly head over to the OC.

7. How is your office looking? In other words, if I were a student that had an appointment, would I be able to see around the piles of papers?

My office looks awesome! I’m a complete neat freak and I decorate EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE—can’t be stopped!

8. When is bedtime?

Bedtime is 10—10:30p.m. I’ve never been good at late night stuff.

9. What is the most interesting place that your studies have taken you?

My studies didn’t take me there, but Shanghai is the most interesting place I’ve been in the last 18 months.

10. What do you hope students know before they take your class(es)?

I really enjoy what I do, and I try to bring that enthusiasm into the classroom.