Between a humanities degree at UCLA and graduate work at Yale, Jon has written everything from analytical research papers to personal narratives, and he brings that range to teaching writing. He breaks the process into concrete, manageable steps — developing a thesis with real specificity, organizin...

Brittany's approach to writing starts before the first draft: she teaches students how to generate a real thesis from messy initial ideas, then build paragraphs where every sentence pushes the argument forward. Her background teaching writing at the college level means she catches the habits — vague...

Crafting a clear argument is a lot like crafting a scene — every sentence needs purpose, momentum, and a reason for the reader to keep going. Mia brings that storytelling instinct from her theater and comedy background at Yale to the nuts and bolts of writing: thesis development, paragraph structure...

Clear, persuasive writing is a skill Ryan has taught across wildly different contexts — from law students drafting case analyses to Hong Kong test-prep students learning to structure timed essays. That range means he can meet a high schooler working on a five-paragraph essay or a college student tac...

Learning to write well is really learning to think clearly on paper — organizing an argument, choosing precise language, and revising until every sentence earns its place. Tessa approaches writing instruction by working through drafts with students, showing them how to move from a loose idea to a st...

As a spoken word poet, Louie knows that strong writing starts with having something specific to say and then finding the clearest, most compelling way to say it. He teaches students to outline arguments before drafting, vary sentence structure for emphasis, and revise with purpose — skills that tran...

Most students know what they want to say but struggle to organize it on the page — the thesis drifts, paragraphs blur together, evidence sits there without analysis. Stephen teaches writing as a process of building an argument in layers: claim first, then structure, then evidence, then style. His ps...

Sophie treats writing as a craft with learnable moves: how to open with a hook that creates tension, how to build paragraphs around a single controlling idea, how to revise for rhythm and precision. As a Humanities major at Yale whose coursework is almost entirely essay-based, she produces and refin...

Niko's experience as a university writing TA means he understands the gap between what students think they've argued on the page and what a reader actually takes away. He tackles that disconnect directly, teaching writers to build clear thesis statements, organize evidence logically, and revise with...

Two years of teaching 5th graders taught Julia that strong writing instruction starts with getting students to say something specific — then showing them how sentence structure, word choice, and organization make that idea land. Her own academic writing spans two languages and two continents, from S...