From argumentative essays to creative nonfiction, Patrick teaches writing as a process of thinking on the page — outlining claims, drafting with momentum, and revising with precision. He's taught writing to fifth graders in Chicago, business professionals in South Korea, and incoming university stud...

Most writing problems aren't really about writing — they're about thinking. Julia starts by teaching students to organize their ideas before they touch a keyboard, using outlining and freewriting techniques that prevent the blank-page panic. From there, she walks through revision as a skill in itsel...

Teaching writing at UW-Madison and currently teaching English to students in China has given Sarah an unusually wide view of how people learn to organize ideas on a page. She digs into the fundamentals — thesis development, paragraph structure, evidence integration — and adapts her approach dependin...

Strong writing starts with having something specific to say and knowing how to organize it — two skills Madeline sharpens constantly in her PhD work. She teaches students to outline before they draft, build paragraphs around single ideas, and revise with purpose, whether they're writing a five-parag...

Strong writing isn't about following a formula; it's about learning to control your ideas on the page. Jacob teaches the mechanics behind that control — how to build a paragraph around a single claim, how to vary sentence structure for emphasis, and how to revise with purpose instead of just rearran...

Clear writing starts with clear thinking, and Miriam treats every draft as a logic problem: does each claim follow from the last, does the evidence actually support the point, and is there a sentence doing no work that should be cut? Her dual background in English and Biology means she's equally com...

Getting ideas onto the page is often the hardest part, and Breanna tackles that blank-page paralysis by teaching concrete prewriting strategies — outlining, freewriting, clustering — before a student ever drafts a full paragraph. From there, she digs into thesis construction, paragraph development, ...

Strong writing starts with a clear claim and a plan for proving it, whether the assignment is a five-paragraph essay or a research paper. Dylan has tutored writing across grade levels — from elementary students learning paragraph structure to peers working on college-level argumentation — and he tai...

Good writing isn't about big vocabulary — it's about clear thinking on the page. Olivia writes professionally every day, crafting everything from investigative features to tight news pieces, and she brings that real-world discipline to teaching structure, argumentation, and revision. Students leave ...

Between lab reports, research papers, and a microbiology course she helped teach at UW-Madison, Samantha has done more structured writing than most undergrads. She breaks the writing process into concrete steps — outlining an argument, building evidence-based paragraphs, and revising for clarity — s...