I'm pleased to join the Guru.com community and have the opportunity to experience working on a wide range of different projects. I have been teaching and tutoring ESL for the past 20 years, which has given me the unique gift of learning the particulars and intricacies of my native language, English. Not only have I taught non-native speakers, but I have also spent the last four years teaching English Composition, Creative Writing, Professional/Business Writing, Academic Research, and APA documentation.My strengths lie in research, academic writing, APA documentation, and non-fiction writing. I enjoy writing blog postings, articles, and reports. I have been grant writing since 2002, mostly at the state level but also to for-profit businesses. I have ghostwritten and edited university-level English grammar textbooks.Essentially, I am happy to write for you - large project or small, mundane or eclectic . I've re-written personal dating ads for busy executives, re-worked emails for tone and