University Writing Center Tutors

She/Her/Hers

Major: English, Minor in History

Writing Expertise/Interests: MLA Style, creative writing, argumentative essays, literary analyses, grammar, and punctuation

Language Spoken: English, Some Spanish

Favorite Quote: "You just gotta keep livin', man, L-I-V-I-N." - Matthew McConaughey

Favorite Book: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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Major: English, Psychology, and Minor in History

Writing Expertise/Interests: Academic essays, outlines/pre-writing, APA citations

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

Favorite Book: Dracula by Bram Stoker

He/Him/His

Major: Honors Psychology, Political Science, and Philosophy

Writing Expertise/Interests: Argumentative, academic, and research essays

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "A problem shared is a problem halved. A joy shared is a joy doubled." - Old Adage

Favorite Book: Saint Augustine's Confessions 

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Major: Finance, Advanced Financial Analysis Emphasis

Writing Expertise/Interests: Literary analysis, personal narrative, argumentative and technical writing, editing, and proofreading

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: “Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.” - W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge 

Favorite Book: The Razor’s Edge

He/Him/His

Major: History

Writing Expertise/Interests: Research papers, argumentative essays, and creative writing

Language Spoken: English and German

Favorite Quote: "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." - J.R.R. Tolkien

Favorite Book: Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

He/Him/His

Major: English and Journalism

Writing Expertise/Interests: Journalistic, academic, and literary analysis

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all." - lyrics from "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"  by Neutral Milk Hotel

Favorite Book: East of Eden by John Steinbeck

She/They

Major: Honors Psychology and English

Writing Expertise/Interests: Literary analysis, fiction, literature reviews, formatting, punctuation, content & clarity

Language Spoken: English and some Spanish

Favorite Quote: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." - Maya Angelou

Favorite Book: The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson

He/Him/His

Major: Psychology and Writing & Rhetoric

Writing Expertise/Interests: Technical writing, argumentative essays

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "The mountains are calling, and I must go. " - John Muir

Favorite Book: East of Eden by John Steinbeck

She/Her/Hers

Major:Psychology and Writing & Rhetoric

Writing Expertise/Interests:Academic writing, psychology research papers, HONORS papers, poetry

Language Spoken: English and non-fluent Korean

Favorite Quote: "Don't measure how valuable you are by the way you are treated." - Charlie Mackesy

Favorite Book: Kim Jiyoung, Born in 1982

He/Him/His

Major: English, Minor in Theater

Writing Expertise/Interests: Argumentative essays and poetry

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "It is this eternal dance that separates human beings/From angels, from demons, from gods/And I must not forget, we must not forget/That we are human beings" - "Hi Ren" song by Ren Gill

Favorite Book: The Seven and A Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

He/Him/His

Major: Communication, Minor in Dialogue, Conflict Resolution, and Mediation

Writing Expertise/Interests: Speeches, academic, writing, and creative writing

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still." - Exodus 14:14

Favorite Book: Single, Just Because by Bridget Gee

She/Her/Hers

Major: Psychology, Minor in Intergrative Human Biology and Honors Integrated Minor in Health

Writing Expertise/Interests: Literary analysis and argumentative, research-based essays

Language Spoken: English and Vietnamese

Favorite Quote: "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition form mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein

Favorite Book: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

She/Her/Hers

Major: Honors English, Minors in Drawing and Printmaking

Writing Expertise/Interests: Academic writing, fiction, literary analysis, and poetry

Language Spoken: English and Russian

Favorite Quote: "So intimitely, out there/at the pen's point or brush's tip/ do world / and spirit wed" - Howard Nemerov

Favorite Book: If We Were Villians by L.M Rio

She/Her/Hers

Major: Criminology and Spanish Minor

Writing Expertise/Interests: Research papers

Language Spoken: English 

Favorite Quote: "Don't die before you're dead." - Scott Stambach

Favorite Book: The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

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Major: Honors English, German, and Music

Writing Expertise/Interests: Creative writing, Songwriting, Literary analysis

Language Spoken: English and German

Favorite Quote: "I love you. I'm glad I exist." - From The Orange by Wendy Cope

Favorite Book: How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

He/Him/His

Major: Psychology and Writing & Rhetoric

Writing Expertise/Interests: Proposals, academic essays, literary analysis, research papers (IMRAD), APA style, content & clarity.

Language Spoken: English and Korean

Favorite Quote: "An educated person is one who through the travail of his own life has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture, that make him a bearer of its traditions and enable him to contribute to its improvement." - Mortimer J. Adler

Favorite Book: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

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Major: Writing & Rhetoric

Writing Expertise/Interests: Creative writing, grant proposals, technical writing, and grammar

Language Spoken: English, Portuguese, and Conversational Spanish

Favorite Quote: "We accept the love we think we deserve." - Stephen Chbosky

Favorite Book: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

She/Her/Hers

Major: Sociology, Minor in Parks, Recreation and Tourism, and a certificate in Social Justice Advocacy 

Writing Expertise/Interests:Personal essays and creative writing

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious." - Jack Kerouac

Favorite Book: Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

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Program: Creative Writing Ph.D. in Prose

Writing Expertise/Interests: Creative Writing, personal statements, argumentative essays, and literary analyses

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "Isn't it pretty to think so?" - Hemingway

Favorite Book: Anything by Virginia Woolf

She/Her/Hers

Program: Ph.D. student in Writing & Rhetoric

Writing Expertise/Interests: Thesis development, content and clarity, grammar; Professional, Technical, Expository, Argumentative, Informative, and Research-based Essays; Identifying sources and citations.

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "There is greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you" by Maya Angelou

Favorite Book: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Language Spoken: English

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Program: Ph.D. student in Writing & Rhetoric

Writing Expertise/Interests: Argumentative Research papers, APA/MLA, Editorials, reviews of music and theatre, decolonial theory, creative writing, and education.

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "Education is not a process of assimilating 'the truth' ... a process of learing to 'take a hand in what is going on' by joining 'the conversations of mankind" - Kenneth Bruffee 

Favorite Book: Anxious people by Fredrik Backman

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Program: Au.D. in Audiology

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Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "Knowing what it feels like to be in pain is exactly why we try to be kind to others" - Jiraiya

Favorite Book: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

He/Him/His

Program: Ph.D. student in Literacy & Cultural Studies

Writing Expertise/Interests: Math and science writing; technical writing; research in the humanities and social sciences. 

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "If to us, today, the bear no longer seems to be a transcendent being, we can nonetheless see that, deep in our unconscious, where language 'means' in multiple ways, the bear's sacredness is still a part of our lives" - The Sacred Paw

Favorite Book: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon