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Max

Current Undergrad, International and Global Studies, Journalism
Brandeis University

About Me

I've been helping students and friends to edit and revise their writing across multiple styles for seven years. Throughout high school, I was part of an exclusive magnet school for creative writing called the Educational Center for the Arts: in the mornings I took core classes (math, science, history, etc) at a public high school, and in the afternoons I attended college-level workshops in fiction, screenplay, memoir, humor, and poetry. There, I learned from published writers and edited fellow students' pieces, including college essays, for four years while developing my own work. In college, I became the opinion section editor of my student newspaper. Last year, I served as its editor in chief. At The Justice, I've applied the skills I learned from creative writing to journalism and op-ed content. I already had experience clarifying sentences, helping writers develop a unique written voice, and keeping writing concise and precise, but through The Justice I learned how to find and support a strong argument, recognize logical fallacies in one's own thinking as well as in others, and conduct thorough, accurate and credible research. I also learned the AP's grammatical style guides inside and out, though remain a devotee of the Oxford comma. While most of my work in tutoring specifically has been with middle and high school-age students, I've also worked with younger students as a summer camp counselor and a teaching assistant. I've also got a strong theater background, both as a performer and a viewer.

Education & Certifications

Brandeis University
Current Undergrad, International and Global Studies, Journalism

Q&A with Max

I will happily teach students how to earn higher test scores or better grades, but the best way to accomplish either of those two goals is to learn how to learn better. Learning is a skill: it requires finding new pieces of information, understanding it fully, considering it long enough to develop an opinion on it, putting the new piece of information in context with all the other things you know, and then engaging with others about that information and your opinions on it. Tests and grades are just metrics we invented for measuring how well someone has developed that skill, but the skill itself and the ways one actually develops it haven't really changed for as long as people have been around on Earth. My goal with any tutoring session is to have students practice that skill, since the more one uses any skill the more one hones their abilities with it. I aim to leave every tutoring session with my students having something new to think about for a while.

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