I'm a broadly-experienced teacher and tutor of writing, working with individuals from middle school age through adulthood. My "writing philosophy" is that everyone, whatever their background or age can significantly improve as writers, and that the best way to improve as a writer is to write. With this in mind, we'll start with an awareness of the patterns in your writing – what elements are strong, what needs work. We'll then improve those key areas through the writing you’re currently working on and/or additional writing I’ll assign, sometimes on the spot during our meeting. I don't believe in a "one size fits all" approach to writing, but I do know that there are almost always both "macro" (organizational, big-picture stuff) and "micro" (sentence-level word choice, grammar, syntax) elements to work on.
I'll help you to successfully improve writing of any type, including but not limited to:
* writing assignments for school in any subject area from middle to high school, college,
grad, GED, adulthood, and in any genre - essays, research papers, creative writing
*college application essays, SAT strategies for the reading and language/grammar sections
* resumes, emails, proposals
* editing your writing for school, workplace, publication
* other - you name it!
My teaching career spans roles as an Instructor and Associate Professor in English, Writing, and Teacher Education programs extensively in the New York and in Boston areas, at urban and suburban high schools, middle schools, colleges and universities, ESL and GED programs. I'm also the founder and former Executive Director of a non-profit serving under-resourced public high school students through a variety of academic opportunities. I currently tutor writing privately and as a volunteer writing tutor at a large urban high school in Cambridge, MA. I am a published writer of short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and research on writing. In short, I love to teach writing and to write!