English & Writing Tutoring

English tutoring sessions usually start with a specific piece of writing — an assigned essay, a reading response, a personal statement — rather than a worksheet, because that's what's actually being graded.

What a tutor actually does with a draft

• Reads the draft before the session and marks it up: what's working, what's unclear, what the argument is missing.
• Walks through the marks live with the student, asking questions rather than rewriting sentences for them.
• Helps restructure at the paragraph or argument level first, then moves to sentence-level clarity and grammar.
• For college essays, keeps the student's own voice as the non-negotiable constraint — the goal is a stronger version of what they wrote, not a tutor's version.