Certified as a writing tutor through Penn's Critical Writing Department — the first freshman accepted into the program — Jessica learned early how to give precise, actionable feedback on essays, a skill she's been sharpening ever since across years of tutoring and editing work. She teaches students ...

Kate's engineering training might seem unrelated to English, but environmental engineering demands precise technical writing — constructing clear arguments, supporting claims with evidence, and revising until every sentence earns its place. She applies that same discipline to literary analysis essay...

Essay writing clicked for Erika during her Master of Public Policy program, where every assignment demanded a clear argument backed by evidence from complex source material — the same skill set high school English requires for literary analysis and persuasive writing. She brings that policy-trained ...

Between a business degree and a law degree, Tiffany has spent years dissecting arguments, analyzing tone, and writing under pressure — exactly the skills high school English demands. She breaks down literary analysis essays by teaching students to identify rhetorical strategies and support claims wi...

Between his biology coursework at Yale and his freshman counselor role advising incoming students on academics, Tony got used to reading critically across disciplines and explaining complex ideas in clear, organized prose — skills that transfer directly to literary analysis and essay writing. He tea...

As a published author with a background in both English and psychology, MaryAnn brings a dual lens to essay writing and literary analysis — she teaches students not just how to structure an argument, but how to read characters and narrators with real psychological depth. That combination is especial...

A full year embedded in a middle school classroom through City Year taught Sharon something most tutors don't get — a ground-level view of how students actually struggle with reading and writing, not just how curricula assume they do. Her UChicago training in public policy analysis and her journalis...

A neuroscience degree from Yale required more writing than most people expect — analytical essays, research papers, and close readings of dense scientific literature. David applies that same rigor to high school English, breaking down thesis construction, textual evidence, and paragraph-level argume...

From thesis statements to comma splices, Andrea covers the full range of high school English skills with equal comfort. Her triple-major workload demanded constant writing across disciplines, so she knows how to teach a student to adapt their voice for a literary analysis one week and a persuasive e...

Founding a storefront theater company in Chicago means Andrew lives inside texts — breaking down how a playwright's language choices create character, tension, and meaning on the page before they ever reach the stage. That habit of close reading, sharpened by his University of Chicago English degree...