You made this all happen, so can you tell us a bit about what it was like, and why you decided to initiate the Writing Center at LAU?

Thank you very much, Ren, for this wonderful introduction and this really great idea.

I've been looking forward to this exciting podcast.

You're taking me way back.

So it was my very first year at LAU.

I was junior faculty.

I already had some experience with writing centers in general, and I did a lot of research on second language writing, second language acquisition, you know, writing skills, um, students', uh, attitudes and beliefs about second language writing, and how different types of teacher feedback affect writing as well.

Mm.