Professional Editor and English Teacher
Good writing has always been my passion and obsession. As a student, I was the kid who got excited about essay assignments; my friends used to tease me for using my phone to read about grammar instead of posting status updates on Facebook. In high school and college, I was the person my classmates came to when they needed someone to proofread their writing or help with organizing their essay. I found that I got real joy from helping others become better writers and express themselves more clearly, so I decided to become a high school English teacher.
Unfortunately, teaching English at the highschool level has not provided the opportunity to write and edit that I had imagined it would, so I have recently began to look for other avenues to satisfy my passion for writing and editing. I began doing some editing and consulting for students writing essays in a masters program at Loma Linda University. As I watched my clients’ grades have steadily improved and gained more confidence in my innate abilities, I decided that I needed to take on a bigger challenge and use my talent to help even more people.
...Actually, who am I kidding? I just really really like to edit writing. I have an unhealthy obsession with things like punctuation placement, parallel structure, and tone. I am an underpaid teacher with an ungodly amount of student loan debt who is looking for ways to supplement her income without having to be away from her new baby (he’s nine months and just about the cutest thing ever). I am looking to exploit my abilities as an English teacher for my own profit by doing something I already enjoy.
As a teacher, I know what other teachers and professors are looking for when it comes to academic writing. I teach grammar, MLA, APA, tone, parallel structure, and connotation, so I know that I have an excellent working knowledge of how to organize, write, and edit an essay. I know that my work will make clients happy and successful.