...I enjoyed trying my hand at journalism at the Philadelphia Weekly as a fact-checking editor and contributing Arts and Entertainment writer. Later, I worked at Thought Incorporated, tutoring middle school, high school, and college students, and creating new reading and writing curricula. I taugh... (read more)
...My writing is a testament to this, as I have earned numerous awards and scholarships in college by presenting such writing pieces to different selection committees. As a PhD, I have experience writing, editing, and proofreading different grants, research manuscripts, essays, dissertations, and m... (read more)
...Along with my extensive experience teaching at the collegiate level, I have published two academic articles in high profile, peer reviewed journals and have given extensive conference presentations—most recently, I was invited to give a short talk at the Harvard Medieval English Colloquium, which... (read more)
...Writing is an art as well as a method. Students will not do well on standardized tests unless they have a solid background in the use of the language. I have worked with students of all ages and backgrounds as a high school teacher, a community college and university instructor, and an adult education teacher. (read more)
...They might misread test instructions or be unable to discern the main idea of the short or long passages in the critical reading section. I help my students become very skilled at identifying and rephrasing (restating in their own words) the main idea of the passages we read. Depending on the s... (read more)