Dr. Mike Long is the Coordinator of the Advanced Writing Centre at the College of the North Atlantic-Qatar. He has been with CNA-Q for five years teaching essay and technical writing and public speaking in the Communications Department. Before coming to Qatar, Mike lectured at Memorial University in Canada where he taught courses in composition, the history of English literature, Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. He holds undergraduate degrees from Memorial University and graduate degrees from the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford. His academic areas of interest include technical writing pedagogy in EFL environments, culture and learning, and the history of criminal literature. When he’s not at work, you’ll find him dreaming about ways to make Newfoundland warmer.