"I offer an excellent leg up or catch up to academic success. I'm an award-winning professor with expertise in helping students master academic reading and writing, as well as creative writing. My specialties include helping students get ahead, as well as those who need that bump to get up to and succeed at high school and college-level readiness.

Thesis therapist: I can offer a fresh look at your ideas - intellectual and written. From the outside I can help you work out your points, help you make sense of your points, and also make sure what you are writing makes sense to a reader. Help you ensure that your points come across to the reader coherently as you want to present them. A little like literary cognitive behavioral therapy that helps you arrive at your own unique understanding, with an ability to get it across.

I am writing a college textbook to be published next year. It will be for the first-year composition course, and critical thinking (argument writing).

I was also a competitive fencer who competed at the National and World Cup level. That fueled my love of studying the brain as it pertains to learning and performance. I also was a jazz saxophonist (my undergrad study was Musicology with an English minor). I also spent some time as a stand-up comedian!" less...