Three years as an ESL instructor in college plus a teaching stint in Medellín, Colombia gave Ruth an unusually sharp eye for how language works at the sentence level — clarity, structure, and purpose. She applies that awareness to everything from persuasive essays to research papers, breaking down t...

Clear writing starts with clear thinking, and Martha's cross-disciplinary research at Michigan — bridging psychology and global health — demands exactly that. She teaches students how to outline an argument before drafting, develop evidence-driven paragraphs, and revise with purpose so the final pro...

Every piece of writing is telling a story, whether it's a five-paragraph essay or a research paper — that's the principle Mary brings from her Creative Writing degree and her daily work at the NYU Abu Dhabi writing center. She digs into thesis development, paragraph organization, and voice, teaching...

Strong writing starts with a clear claim and a plan for proving it, not with a blank page and good intentions. Suzie tackles the outlining and thesis-building stages head-on, showing students how to move from a vague topic to a specific argument supported by textual or research evidence. Her backgro...

Every writing problem is really a thinking problem — unclear prose usually means the idea underneath hasn't been fully worked out yet. Skyler's approach starts with organizing a student's raw ideas into a logical framework before worrying about style or polish. Her graduate thesis work in Russian an...

Two years of teaching a first-year social sciences seminar at Michigan taught Ceren exactly where student writing tends to fall apart: vague thesis statements, paragraphs that summarize instead of analyze, and conclusions that repeat the intro. She walks through each stage of the drafting process, f...

Years of teaching both literature and language at Princeton gave Megan a dual perspective on writing: she thinks about clarity and argument structure the way a composition instructor does, but she also pays attention to rhythm, word choice, and voice the way a literary scholar does. Whether the assi...

Sophia treats writing as a craft with learnable moves — thesis construction, evidence integration, sentence-level revision — not just a talent some students have and others don't. Her English degree from Yale means she's spent four years dissecting how great prose works and translating those techniq...

Strong writing starts with a thesis that actually says something debatable, not a summary statement dressed up as an argument. Alec walks students through the full arc — from brainstorming a defensible claim to organizing evidence paragraphs to revising for voice and precision. His engineering backg...

Strong writing isn't about following a formula; it's about knowing what you want to say and choosing the clearest path to say it. Juliane tackles everything from paragraph organization and thesis development to voice and word choice, adapting her approach based on whether a student is working on a p...