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Empathetic, effective Essay writing--AP Lang & Comp,Seminar.IB.TOEFL
Deborah Lynn C.

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I’m rather a nerd for all things English: essays, narratives, grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation. The details about how to use the English language are like a game to me. I believe each one can learn to use the English language and communicate ideas clearly and masterfully. I love guiding students/writers to create essays that analyze: literature, persuasive articles, works of art, songs--anything.
My teacher friends asked me to review writings they intended for our...

I’m rather a nerd for all things English: essays, narratives, grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation. The details about how to use the English language are like a game to me. I believe each one can learn to use the English language and communicate ideas clearly and masterfully. I love guiding students/writers to create essays that analyze: literature, persuasive articles, works of art, songs--anything.
My teacher friends asked me to review writings they intended for our colleagues because they trusted my knowledge of how to construct English.
Thirteen years of tutoring, in person and online, is informed by 33 years of teaching public high school and, a couple years, community college courses. For 10 years, I guided juniors in AP Language and Composition courses; most every one who took the exam, earned college credit.
I coach any type of writing, from beginning writers to doctoral writers; from blog posts to website text, including business emails--International Baccalaureate English students; TIQA-TIQA-C: topic sentence, introduce and quote, analyze, conclude; and TOEFL writing exam prep.
I prefer to Async review–without the student present–the student's most recent essay draft, scoring rubric and teacher comments, if available. Async Reviews are paid sessions during which I give in-line comments; from those I devise lessons that begin from the writer’s specific strengths and address areas of growth to practice in order to reach their full potential. Thus, my tutoring lessons specifically target this student.
I earned a Rank One at UofLouisville, KY. Subsequently, I created my portfolio to become Nat’l Board Certified in English, Youth & Young Adults.
I tutor to earn an income beyond my other careers: audiobook narrating/producing, text editing (non-fiction articles, award applications, blogs, novels, etc.), and garlic growing (w/ organic practices) and braiding the plants into a culinary, kitchen decor.

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Education

Taylor, University, Upland, Indiana
English,Speech,Broadcasting
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
Masters
University of Louisville, Kentucky
Other

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  • Hourly Rate: $203
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  • Background check passed on 11/9/2023

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English

English

30 years of teaching English in public schools and tutoring privately have developed my tool box of strategies to teach students to use the English language well. I love to guide writers to use English to create masterful texts. During my teaching career, I have gained these certifications and degrees: National Board Certified Teacher, English Adolescent & Young Adult Rank 1, certified grades 7-12: English, Speech, Radio/TV, Mass Communications Masters Degree: English, Communications, Drama
Essay Writing

Essay Writing

I have tutored essay writing for more than 15 years. Prior to this private tutoring, I taught college and HS students to organize their thinking and gather information in order to determine their claim—their position—about a topic. I guided them to create powerful paragraphs and tie their argument together with guiding transitions. I’m confident I can help you craft masterful essays. In addition to my Masters and Rank I degrees, I am National Board Certified in English Youth and Young Adult and am certified by the KY Writing Project trainings.
Grammar

Grammar

During more than 30 years of experience helping students learn to express themselves well, I demonstrated for them how to use the constructions and rules of English. I'll give tips and tricks so you'll learn how to use grammar and mechanics well and to craft your writing as an artist does a masterpiece. I will analyze your revised draft of an essay or assignment for grammar, sentence construction, and punctuation skills for you to learn and apply as you revise the final draft. Lessons will focus on skills to learn in order to revise the current and future tasks.
Proofreading

Proofreading

For more than 30 years I've proofread and responded to student documents and devised lessons to help the writers learn how to improve their drafts to the next level. In your document, I will check for language flow, word choice and tone, appropriate headings and formatting as well as lower order elements: citations, grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation skills for you to learn and apply as you revise the final draft of your document. If Lessons are requested, sessions will focus on skills you can learn to revise all documents and to apply in subsequent writing tasks. Even my colleagues would bring a document to me to proofread and suggest improvements, especially when they intended to publish it to our teaching colleagues and administrators--they trusted my knowledge and application of English rules and conventions.
Writing

Writing

Ten years experience teaching students to write AP Language and Composition type Essays developed my skill in responding to and tutoring writers. I design lessons that focus on skills needed to accomplish whatever task the prompt presents. A rough draft is a good place to begin a session so we can analyze what skills are needed in order to wisely focus our time together. Many courses and fields of study assign these types of essays (Review of Literature, Compare/contrast, Analysis of Fiction/Narrative for rhetorical and narrative devices, and narrative elements, Problem Solution, Description of a population, Case Study, Discussion Posts, Research Question development, Masters Thesis, Doctoral Dissertation).
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An insightful tutor who helps you become a better writer

I reviewed and revised my personal statement with Deborah. I really enjoyed the sessions because 1) I could see my essay improving as I made revisions based on our discussion, and 2) she taught me how to become a better writer as opposed to simply editing my work. If you are looking for a quick edit of your work, Deborah's class may not suit you. However, if you want to take away specific skills, strategy, or knowledge from the tutoring experience and improve as a writer long-term, Deborah's class will be worth it.

Dennis, 3 lessons with Deborah Lynn

Patient and hardworking tutor

I had a great experience working with Deborah Lynn as a writing tutor. From the first session, she created a supportive, low-pressure environment and met me exactly where I was, which made it easy to ask questions and stay engaged. She explained grammar in a way that was clear, practical, and easy to apply, so I wasn’t just correcting mistakes in the moment, I was actually learning how to improve my writing going forward. She also helped strengthen my essay organization by building clear outline structures and showing me how to move from ideas to a focused thesis, strong topic sentences, and well-supported paragraphs. Her step-by-step approach made writing feel much more manageable and helped me work more efficiently. She gave thoughtful feedback, offered specific examples, and always balanced high standards with encouragement. She was incredibly patient, kind, and consistently professional, and she made each session productive and enjoyable. I left our work together feeling more confident and much better equipped to plan, draft, and revise. I highly recommend her.

Daryl, 11 lessons with Deborah Lynn

Super helpful tutor

Deborah is an amazing tutor and has really helped me improve in my essay writing structure and always helps me tackle road blocks with my writing.

Minna, 30 lessons with Deborah Lynn

You Will Learn How To Write An Essay

Deborah makes the college writing process exponentially easier. Once you get through the first essay with her guidance, it's all light lifting from there. She starts by taking time to understand your goals and interests, then builds her lessons around them. For me, I needed to understand what to include and what to leave out in my PIQs for UC applications. She broke my goal into clear, actionable steps, starting with idea review and moving to sentence concision. She also kept documents for me to remember key writing, which allowed me to take away new knowledge after each lesson. After finishing a PIQ with her, I was able to jump to my next essay with the skills she taught me, drafting and revising on my own. Deborah is how you get your money's worth. —Adarsh S.

JR, 22 lessons with Deborah Lynn

Knowledgeable and patient tutor

Ms. Lynn was able to connect with the student from the moment they first met. Although AP Language and Composition is a tough subject, she took the time first to talk about herself and learn about the student. This helped establish a connection allowing for better tutor session. We already schedule 2 more sessions, glad to be able to find a dedicated teacher like Ms. Lynn.

David, 10 lessons with Deborah Lynn

Great Teacher! Very patient

Deborah was very patient to my son. She explained things clearly and had a professional way to teach my son to understand the literature. She is very good teacher. I highly recommended her.

Andy, 41 lessons with Deborah Lynn

Great Teacher! Very patient

Deborah was very patient to my son. She explained things clearly and had a professional way to teach my son to understand the literature. She is very good teacher. I highly recommended her.

Andy, 41 lessons with Deborah Lynn

Knowledge and supportive

Deb was attentive and meticulous regarding my dissertation manuscript. Highly responsive and knowledgeable about grammar and sentence structuring. If you are needing extra support for an upcoming project, I definitely would give her consideration..

Vanessa, 4 lessons with Deborah Lynn

enjoying my tutoring lessons, and she is very helpful

Deborah Lynn is a very kind, patient and professional tutor, we were able to discuss a lesson plan for the next few weeks in a matter of minutes, not to mention that her tutoring cervises are actually very helpful for my college level classes in English grammar.

Patrick, 8 lessons with Deborah Lynn

First lesson review

My son Andrew said that the lesson was great, the tutor very nice, and the next lesson scheduled already. Need I say more? Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Jaime, 34 lessons with Deborah Lynn