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Learn More About John's Experience:

grammar My qualifications to teach grammar are extensive. I displayed an aptitude for language at a very early age - prior to my memories of doing so, in fact. I was able to read before entering school, and my father tells me, and everyone else who will listen, that this ability was largely self-taught. In first grade, I was reading at a sixth grade level, and was prone (again, according to my father) to lecturing my family at the dinner table on the rudiments of phonics. First grade and already tutoring! Throughout school I excelled at all endeavors pertaining to language, including spelling and composition. The latter came quite readily to me, not least because I had (and continue to have) an intuitive grasp of proper grammar and usage. This skill has been fortified by my excellent education, which included four years of Latin and a demanding collegiate Great Books curriculum, culminating in a B.A. in English. Learning the grammar of a foreign language is an excellent way of heightening one's command of one's own language's grammar, as is deciphering texts from different eras in which different rules of grammar prevailed. Throughout my life, friends, coworkers, and supervisors, aware of my skills, have come to me for assistance in refining the various writings which their school and work situations have required them to produce. They have typically been delighted with the results, and I have always found assisting them rewarding. I am now building a career and a portfolio as a freelance writer, and editors often compliment me on how infrequently my submissions require emendation. The above makes me confident that I can be helpful to virtually any student and can tutor capably at any level.