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Howard S. for tutoring lessons in New York NY Over 20 tutoring hours WyzAnt Tutoring Tutor Tutor United States

Howard S.

English, writing, and much more

New York, NY (10014)

Travel Radius 5 miles
Hourly Fee $90.00
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You will enjoy, grow, and learn while you study any or all of the following with this experienced college teacher:

Writing essays that embody your own unique voice.

Build essays for college applications that distinguish you from all other applicants to the colleges to which you apply; I guide, encourage, and question; you write.

Write and submit freelance articles to various publications, both creative and journalistic work, with this seasoned newspaper reporter and editor and contributor to many magazines and journals.

Contact this rare combo of college professor of writing, journalist, fluent speaker and accomplished reader of Spanish who brings to his work with each student learning gained through a Ph.D. in English at NYU and a second Master's in Creative Writing from CCNY. Check out the exciting and attractive cover of one of Dr. Sage's published books next to his photo.

Certified SAT essay grader and experienced ACT grader on the college level.

More than 30 years ESL/EFL experience with stints in Taiwan and Spain.

Howard's Subjects

Math:
  • SAT math
Science:
  • philosophy
Art:
  • art history
English:
Test Preparation:
Language:
History:
  • American history
Special Needs:
Elementary Education:
Business:
Corporate Training:
Homeschool:

Grammar

Grammar: just another word for the method of building elegant and clear sentences. You can sit down and memorize, memorize, and memorize verbs, nouns, etc.

Alternatively, let Dr. Howard S. show you how to create your own, endlessly improving editing "mirror," enabling you to locate and revise your real--not textbook--grammar challenges in your writing.

It takes two or three lessons and you will build that editing mirror on your own and feel the confidence of no longer needing... Read More

Writing

As all writers know, an aspiring writer wants expertise, skill at explaining difficult ideas and techniques, and of course experience, the latter supported by extensive publications.

Dr. Howard S. possesses all three, as follows:

. Three years of full-time journalistic experience as a reporter and feature writer for two daily newspapers

. 30 + years teaching writing at New York University and various branches of CUNY, including teaching graduate courses in TESOL... Read More

SAT Writing

You want to do well on the SAT essay. Of course, you do. You want more than that, though. You also hope to gain some lifetime writing skills. Study with me and you will. How?

. You will understand thoroughly what makes a writing appealing and vital.

. You will know how to manage essay structure and writing time use.

. You won't fear editing your own writing because you will know how to do so quickly and carefully.

. You will become a confident writer,... Read More

TOEFL

What expertise and experience should you expect from your TOEFL mentor?

Dr. Howard S. knows and has it!

He is an author of two major books (see them via Amazon.com) in the TOEFL area.

He was a keynote speaker at national and international TOEFL focused conferences over more than thirty years.

He has been a professor in TOEFL programs including instructor of a course about using literature in ESL.

He has been an instructor and tutor in various... Read More

Elementary (K-6th)

As an active class parent, including the actual Class Parent Rep in my son's second grade class, I came to know during my son's five years at The Anderson Program, one of the most sought after programs for elementary school children in New York City, all the subjects, concerns, and teachers' needs. In other words, I learned by being active in that world. Even before that, while my son was still applying for elementary school, we set up a fun pre-elementary school classroom at home during his play... Read More

Phonics

If you wish to enhance your knowledge and actual use of phonics, then Dr. Howard S. is the right person to contact. In addition to undergraduate and graduate courses (at New York University as part of his Ph.D.) in Linguistics, he has belonged to the Applied Linguistics group of TESOL and New York State TESOL for more than thirty years. His articles and presentations on applied linguistics, including phonics in poems, have appeared respectively in NYS TESOL journals and been presented in many... Read More

Study Skills

Even the brightest students don't always possess the methods to bring that brightest to fruition. They can easily incorporate the following processes that a study skills expert introduces, including but not limited to the following:

. Divide the task at hand into a workable order, usually mastering more basic challenges and culminating in more difficult concerns.
. Learning to state and write intelligent, useful questions rather than focusing only on attaining correct answers.Read More

ESL/ESOL

Hello Students,

I hope you will find my ESL/ESOL instruction useful and pleasant. Experience of 35 plus years instructing ESL students in a major American
university, one of the top ranking, in addition to experience teaching ESL in Taiwan and Spain, have seasoned me to know how to assist students with challenges thinking and writing in English. Two published books, showing students and other ESL professors, how literature in English can be both fun and productive taught me as... Read More

Public Speaking

Organizing, deciding if, when, and how to use notes, modulating your voice to catch the nuances of your material--these are just a few of the subtle but essential skills Dr. Howard S. can convey to you.

Yes, you will practice all of these and more with him. You leave not having learned any mere abstractions about speaking; you emerge able to carry out the skills immediately.

Dr. Howard S. taught the advanced oral workshop at New York University's American Language Institute... Read More

College Counseling

I have been a college professor for more than 40 years and currently teach college English at Hunter College and BMCC. I taught at NYU for 29 years, from 1973-1992.

During those years I have been reading college essays and have come to know very well the concerns, preoccupations, and needs of college and university students of all kinds in all places. I taught in 1967 at Texas Southern University, a Black college, in Houston, Texas; from 1964-66 at Moravian College, a pre-Reformation... Read More

ISEE

The ISEE on all three age levels has a verbal and a reading component. I bring to these components and these age levels the following credentials:

. Ph.D. in English from NYU
. Second M.A. in Creative Writing from CCNY
. 30+ years of teaching reading and writing on the university level, 29 of them at NYU.
. Two books publications relating to reading skills, five+ pages listing my published articles and presentations at national and international conferences
. Hands-on... Read More

Regents

It's as simple as this: Regents is not an abstract concept or an esoteric field. It exists in many fields. I don't know where you are going to find someone better qualified than Sage to teach people decoding.

I have two published books in the ESL scholarly field all about how students and teachers can use literature to decode. I was a book review editor for more than ten years for the national TESOL Newsletter. These teachers spend much of their lives teaching decoding to foreign students... Read More

Speech

Dr. Howard S. taught advanced oral expression to non-native speakers at NYU for more than 20 years. Moreover, he himself is a frequent speaker at conferences, meetings, and other occasions. Specifically, he has addressed international conferences in Canada, Puerto Rico, and throughout the Continental United States.

His specialty involves teaching students not only how to speak more eloquently and precisely but also how to gain confidence.

His PhD. in English from NYU included... Read More

SSAT

All those grammar concerns, commas, apostrophes, subject-verb agreement, that pester you, as well as long readings that baffle you, will cease to disturb after I assist you. As in all my instruction, I present you with the materials and skills to overcome those challenges on your own. You come away not only possessing the knowledge to make correct choices quickly and within test time limits, but internalizing the knowledge to apply this learning to other areas (writing, for example) and other... Read More

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