"I am an expert in-person or online writing tutor who started tutoring for Wyzant.com in 2014. I specialize in tutoring writing, helping students proofread and correct the grammar in their essays, and helping students handwrite and write using cursive letters.  

Natalie, a college student in California, told me, “The paper you helped me write on the audio-book boom raised my grade from a C minus to a B. My professor liked my paper and said, ‘Nice improvement on your APA in-text citations and references. Nice job paraphrasing! Only a 13% similarity report, down from 30%. Nice job answering the prompts. Thoughtful, well-rounded responses to the questions.’ Thanks, Charles!”

Hi, I’m Charles. I began tutoring writing at Wyzant.com and at CUNY in 2014. My first master’s degree is in political science, my second is in creative writing, and I also completed two-thirds of a Ph.D. I taught political science full-time at Southwest Early College High School in Texas, and at South Texas College. And at Borough of Manhattan Community College, I taught Composition 101. In 2022, I wrote, edited, and published “Speak and Write Concisely”. In 2024, I expanded it and changed its title to “Write Talking” to highlight the new advances in computer-assisted writing apps. Today, you can talk into a speech-to-text app and it will type what you say to let you use more energy to articulate and compose your paper. Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com sell my books.

Use the following writing tip:

When you’re not ready to choose which word to write:

1. Handwrite all the candidates in all caps inside a pair of parentheses.

2. Between every two candidates, insert a semicolon as in (ABUNDANT; AMPLE; COPIOUS; LOTS OF; MANY).

3. When you’re ready to choose the best one, strike through the words you don’t want to use, delete the rejects, and use the good one.

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