Dr Mohammed Albakry, Professor of English, has recently contributed two important opinion pieces to Inside Higher Ed and The Tennesseean. The first, published December 6, "On Writing and Decoding Recommendation Letters," advises on best practices for writing recommendation letters -- a genre rarely taught to junior faculty members. The second, published December 8, "Tennessee Constitution and Its Amendments Have a Language Problem," addresses the problems of of hyper-formal and ambiguous phrasing in proposed Tennessee constitutional amendments.