...of my work as a tutor, I enjoy staying active and exploring new interests. Whether it's hiking, traveling, or engaging in creative projects, I believe that having a well-rounded life is essential for nurturing personal growth and cultivating a love for learning. Through my tutoring, I strive to foster a sense of curiosity and confidence in each student, empowering them to become independent learners who approach challenges with a positive and determined mindset.
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...gain those same skills. I have experience and enjoy working with all levels of students. I tend not to focus on a lot of introductory or "test-prep" material. Instead, I use actual test questions to do hands-on work with students. I'm highly efficient and specialize in working with students who need to learn quickly. I use practice problems to introduce many different strategies and concepts, such that students have a wide skill-set at their disposal....
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...communications for 5 years and have nearly 3 years of tutoring and teaching experience. I graduated from Providence College with an English major and Business minor in 2016. There, I was a Writing Tutor to students on-campus before starting a full-time job as an Associate Writer for a Boston-based financial firm. In 2017, I decided to pursue my love of education and travel by relocating to Leon, Nicaragua. There, I taught elementary, middle, and high...
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...Art History, and a wide variety of other fields). I've made perfect or near perfect scores on every standardized test I teach, beginning from when I made perfect scores on SAT I Writing, Verbal, SAT II Math IIC when I was 15. It is not at all uncommon for my students to achieve scores like these, increasing by 10 percentile points or more after only a few lessons. My approach is the opposite of "one-size-fits-all."...
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...has been to help individuals fully recognize their potential. I believe that each of us is capable of achieving success but realize that our pathways to success may vary, just as our means of learning information will vary. Some learn through discussion, others through doing, others through listening to lectures - my point is we all have the ability to learn just about anything we set our minds to, we just need to discover the...
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I have a Bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. I love working with students of all ages! I have extensive experience tutoring elementary school students in reading and math. I also enjoy helping older students to succeed on standardized tests and write essays. I've worked in the health care sector for the past couple of years. Outside of work, I am a typical Floridian who enjoys spending as much time outside as humanely possible.
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...of Pennsylvania in developmental psychology (with a focus on cognition) and a B.A. from Swarthmore College in theatre and English. I enjoy working with students who are looking to improve their executive function skills as a part of their overall goals for tutoring because I believe in a whole-self approach to time management and skill building. I also thoroughly enjoy tutoring in English literature, high school and college writing, organizational skills, and standardized testing. I've...
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Hi, my name is Naomi, and I am happy to tutor for Varsity Tutors. I study English literature and philosophy, so reading and writing are my strongest suits, but I am glad to help in any of my listed subjects. Please send me a message to let me know how I can be of assistance!... It depends on the subject, but I like to be creative and use all sorts of materials to draw/write/graph etc.... I...
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...at all levels on several topics for over a decade. I have a B.S. in physics, and a master's in Nuclear Science and Engineering from WPI. I completed my second master's in particle astrophysics at the university of Strasbourg in France. I love getting students excited about learning and helping them through difficult topics. One of my favorite challenges is working with students to figure out their specific learning styles to optimize their academic performance.
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Hello and welcome! I look forward to working with you. I have taught reading and writing for twenty years. I've taught middle school, high school, but have spent most of my career teaching at the college level. I recently passed the PMP exam and would love to help you with that as well.
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...degree in Linguistics. While there, I tutored for three years at both high school and college levels in courses including Japanese and Linguistics. I also helped peers with their essays and presentations. Outside of class, I founded and presided over the now-official Linguistics Club. I love tutoring because it not only allows me to work with and help other people but also encourages me to reinforce and improve my own knowledge. I especially enjoy working...
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...group and individual settings for students taking the LSAT, GRE and Bar exams. Additionally, I have significant experience teaching college classes, including communication theory, public speaking, interpersonal communication, and research methods. Particularly in cases of test prep (but also as a general guideline), I like to focus on a student's strengths, not weaknesses. I evaluate to see what kind of thinking a student employs and teach them how to identify and answer those questions. Then...
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...writing. I also have a deep and long-standing interest in U.S. Government and Politics, Social Studies, and both U.S. and World History. One of the things I most enjoy helping people with is writing, revising, and editing. I have assisted many friends, family, co-workers and fellow students over the years with editing essays. Organizing thoughts, finding the best sentence structure and flow, and finding the way to make an essay say best exactly what one...
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...from Berea College. I received a Bachelor's of Science in Business and Economics, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, from the University of Kentucky, and have had a wonderful time immersing myself in the world of learning. I try to approach every subject I encounter with a sense of wonder and openness so that I can appreciate the world around me to the greatest degree. I have a strong preference for experiential learning, and an...
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I love helping people understand material that they have trouble working through on their own. Everyone learns differently and there is a way to teach everyone once you breakdown the information to its most basic concepts and build up from there. I am sure that together we can set you on the right path to understanding the subject matter at hand.
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...broad knowledge of how best to tutor people of different ages and backgrounds. I recently took the GRE test and I performed well on the SAT back in high school. I have a strong grasp of the tests and I would say that tutoring the writing/verbal portions of these tests is my strongest suit. I also love reading and writing, and I love to share my knowledge of the English language by helping others to...
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...to help students grow academically and personally. I believe strongly that any student can learn anything, and I work to make my sessions welcoming, interesting, and accessible. I have a degree in English literature and American Sign Language with a mathematics minor from the University of Rochester and I am currently completing my teaching graduate degree also at Rochester to be come a middle/high school English teacher. In my tutoring experience, I have worked with...
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...for over 15 years. I started after my first year at Rutgers College teaching the SAT and LSAT for a major test preparation company. I went on to teach writing to fellow undergraduates at Rutgers College and to gifted high school students at Johns Hopkin's Center for Talented Youth. As a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, I taught European history to undergraduates earning an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award in 2002....
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...citizen (Australian School of Business MBA 2010) who has worked as an international management consultant in Singapore, South Africa, Australia and the United States, I am happy to tutor on any range of subjects in higher education, including all assessment tests and most business school and MBA subjects. As Managing Partner of NashwellCo.work and Managing Director of Linebrand.us, my active roles as a business leader and entrepreneur in the communities of Lubbock, Texas, Durham, NC,...
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GRE Analytical Writing Tutoring FAQ
Communication is the imparting or exchanging of information or news. It is vitally important in all fields and in all series of studies, from high school writing through graduate-level doctoral examinations and dissertation composition. While you have long worked on the skills needed for expressing yourself and your arguments in writing, it is helpful to review the most fundamental aspects of presenting arguments succinctly and directly. When applying to graduate school, it is likely that you will have to take a test of written expression as a part of your application package. While this will provide an important metric for your evaluators, do not overlook the importance of the GRE's Analytical Writing section. Analytical Writing is commonly required in academic writing to show relationships between pieces of information. It is used to compare and contrast, assess, and evaluate.
Having evolved from the older logical examination section of the GRE, the Analytical Writing section provides you with the opportunity to show how readily you can present your thoughts. You will also be asked to present your logical arguments, number of approaches, theories, methodologies, and conclusions in a timed environment. This means you are required to focus your critical thinking skills with laser-like precision in a short period of time. These skills are, of course, necessary for any good paper and general statement that you might provide with your graduate school applications. However, this does not examine your logical reasoning skills with the rigor and time limitations as provided by the GRE's Analytical Writing section. Therefore, this section provides an important metric for those who are considering your academic and intellectual abilities for potential graduate school admissions.
Personal tutoring is a great way to sharpen these skills quickly and efficiently while you are preparing for test day. Are you afraid to learn in a group setting? Prefer to be one-on-one with a tutor? Have a busy schedule and need online instruction? The Varsity Tutors educational directors will help you to build a personal profile and help you to get connected with a personal tutor who has your ultimate goals in mind. He or she can help you gain the needed focus in your writing style, helping you to learn how to approach your essays with a keen eye and an ability to respond rapidly to the prompt in question. The tutors will also meet you where you are, figuratively and literally. If you need to study in the evening at a coffee shop, your tutor will meet you. If you desire an accommodation for your busy schedule, face-to-face online sessions conducted through our live learning platform are also available upon request. Your tutor, who is knowledgeable in this field, will also consider your current level of experience and prior completed course work.
For example, for the argument essay, your tutor can teach you how to spot logical errors in the prompt and to critique them in a convincing manner. For the issue essay, he or she can teach you the skills needed to establish a response position that succinctly and effectively presents an argument for or against the proposed topic. Given the time limits of these sections, it is necessary to be ready to hit the ground running when you are presented with a prompt. GRE Analytical Writing tutoring can help you develop such abilities, giving you the tools needed to succeed on this important section of the GRE. No time is better than the present to begin preparing for test day. Contact Varsity Tutors to discuss the advantages of GRE Analytical Writing tutoring and let our educational directors connect you with a tutor today!
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Recent GRE Analytical Writing Tutoring Session Notes
Today the student and I focused on the analytical writing portion of the test. We went over strategies for both the issue and argument sections, and formulated plans to approach the questions when she encounters them on the test. For Thursday, she is going to bring in two writing samples (one issue analysis, one argument analysis) so that we can go over them together and see how the approach is working and how she can improve.
Today, we covered an argument writing task as well as a basic introduction to the kinds of questions that might appear on the multiple choice section. The student is going to look into English courses through her school and she is going to continue practicing English with her friends that speak it. She is going to work on writing emails in English to her family. She had no trouble learning how to pick apart a flawed argument. Today, I taught her how to FOIL, which is a basic algebra skill.
For this session we mostly focused on the "Analyze an Issue" task of the GRE Writing section. We practiced quickly identifying reasons for our argument within the first 5 minutes of the section. I also suggested to make it clear in the first paragraph which opinion you side with. This would make it easier on the reader to follow an argument.
Today the student and I went over in detail the analytical writing portion of the test. I also had him outline several essay prompts for each type. For homework I asked him to time himself to complete four full essays.
Last section covered before the student's test on Tuesday.
We went through strategies for writing the analytic writing section, both analyzing an issue and argument. She seemed to understand the material.
We also covered more math problems that she will be going over.
The student and I looked even more in-depth at the Writing section today, examining the two essay prompts and reading through some sample responses together to help her understand what the graders will be looking for. We also began looking at the Verbal section with some extra time at the end of the session.
