English Tutor for Grammar and English Composition (writing/speaking)

I earned a 4-year bachelor's degree in English from Fordham College at the Bronx campus, and a master's degree in English from Boston College. During those years, I had to write many papers, read very many poems, plays, novels and other prose, and then analyze them and write about them. I got better and better at writing, because I did a large amount of writing (and loved thinking about the works we studied). At Fordham College in the Bronx, my final cumulative grade point average was a 3.34/4.0. That's about a B+ average, and at that time (1979), that was a good average. At Boston College, I achieved a 3.6/4.0 average, which is an A average, and for that time (1981), an excellent average.

I had to take a writing test before I entered college at Fordham. If I passed, I would not have had to take a basic English grammar course. If I failed, I would have had to take a basic grammar course. I passed my test, and as my education continued, my writing got clearer and clearer. My point is that I wrote fairly clearly to begin with, but that I wrote even more clearly as time went on (and learned more and more about grammar, both by looking things up in good grammar books, and by learning from teacher feedback).

Today I am a published poet and a medical education editor and proofreader. I mention that because my language activities are evidence of my love for the English language. I think that in order to teach an English subject well, one must love the language--and unquestionably one must be able to use the language very well, whether in a spoken or written manner. I believe that, after love in its broadest sense, the most powerful force on the face of the earth is the word. Used best, words change history--they move the world.

I like helping people, and I think that I can help people, especially young people or people who for whatever reason have difficulty with English, learn to use the English language (spoken or written) better than they currently do. I invite potential students to think about hiring me as their tutor.

Most sincerely and respectfully yours,
Robert Z.

Robert's Subjects

English:	English, writing
Homeschool:	English, writing

Writing

I can aid young students who are having trouble writing sentences correctly to learn to use their own judgment better while writing, so that they produce better quality work. I do this by dividing a sentence into subject and predicate, and by having the students learn the parts of speech, and by having them practice building sentences with their new knowledge. I'll help them build up their vocabulary while they practice writing. They'll practice using commas and semicolons, periods and colons,... Read More

English

I will help students to understand English grammar better by teaching them the parts of a sentence and the parts of speech used to build sentences. I will help the student learn how to choose words when building sentences, and practice with him or her in the building of those sentences. It's a little knowledge, a little more knowledge, a little practice, a little more practice, and some exercises of an ongoing and not limited nature. In short, I'll help the student learn much more about English... Read More

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