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Abstract This study examines applications for two professorial positions in English. Applicants’ responses to advertised requirements reveal three major issues: reading transformation, writing anxiety, and arithmetical paralysis. Scores based upon the author's formula, in itself a process of discovery, may assist in filling these positions. Appropriate tables are appended.