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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Reading a case brief and reading a novel require the same core skill: figuring out what the author is actually arguing beneath the surface. Tiffany's legal training sharpened her ability to dissect texts for tone, structure, and purpose, and she teaches students to annotate strategically and build w...

From close reading and literary analysis to crafting thesis-driven essays, Samantha covers the full range of English skills students need. Her own background in college essay coaching and essay editing means she's especially effective at teaching students how to build an argument — selecting textual...

Strong English skills come down to reading critically and writing clearly, and Zachary tackles both by teaching students to identify an author's argument before analyzing style or structure. His experience coaching college essays and editing student writing gives him a practical eye for what makes p...

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...