Penn's Critical Writing Department trained Jessica to evaluate arguments, analyze texts, and give precise feedback — skills she now applies when teaching reading comprehension, thesis development, and close textual analysis. Her background spans literature, essay writing, and standardized test prep,...

Between tutoring SAT Reading and Writing (she scored a 1580) and coaching students through college essays, Kate has spent years dissecting how strong written English actually works. She digs into thesis development, evidence integration, and revision strategies — the skills that turn a rough draft i...

Most people don't expect an engineer to be strong in English, but Jai's 1590 SAT reflects serious reading comprehension and writing ability alongside his quantitative skills. He teaches essay structure and close reading with the same logical precision he applies to code — identifying a thesis, mappi...

Engineering PhDs write constantly — grant proposals, literature reviews, technical arguments that have to persuade skeptical readers. Jeffrey brings that precision to English tutoring, breaking down sentence structure, grammar mechanics, and paragraph organization in a way that makes the logic behin...

Between crafting college essays for UChicago and editing across multiple writing-intensive courses, Rhea developed a sharp eye for argument structure, thesis clarity, and textual analysis. She teaches students how to move from a vague first impression of a passage to a specific, well-supported claim...

Between literature analysis, essay structure, and close reading, English class asks students to juggle a lot of different skills at once. Erika draws on her background teaching high school and college-level English to show students how to build an argument from a text — pulling specific evidence, un...

Between a 1550 SAT, three undergraduate degrees including one from the University of Chicago, and a Columbia journalism program, Sharon has spent years inside dense, demanding texts. She teaches students to move beyond surface-level comprehension — unpacking an author's rhetorical choices, tracing h...

Reading critically and writing persuasively are skills Sami has sharpened across two degrees and a career that demanded precise communication. He teaches students to dissect an author's argument, identify rhetorical strategies, and build their own thesis-driven essays with evidence that actually sup...

Creative and analytical in equal measure, Matthew tackles English from both sides: the technical (grammar, argument structure, evidence integration) and the interpretive (close reading, thematic analysis, authorial intent). His background spans Stanford science writing and active work as a songwrite...

A published author with a degree in English, MaryAnn treats reading and writing as two sides of the same skill: the close-reading strategies she teaches for poetry and prose feed directly into stronger thesis statements, sharper textual evidence, and more cohesive essays. She's particularly effectiv...