New in Town

Helping folks feel confident in their communication.

Reading and writing are part of who I am: I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t drawn to words. From reading the ingredients and information on cereal boxes as a kid, to trips to the local library with my mom and sister as a teen, and finally editing peers’ papers in university, and now working with students to revise and edit school assignments, I have always been interested in words and how we use them to communicate with others.

I have decided to take a risk and open up a shop online where I can work more with my passions for helping folks communicate clearly through their writing. I enjoy working one-on-one with teens, and even university students, to idea generate and organize information in English assignments, and I enjoy copyediting documents to add clarity and coherence.

My hope for this business is to provide dedicated, reliable, and quality help to create clarity of communication in my clients’ writing. As for tutoring, I can’t wait to work with folks on their projects and see what develops and changes to create clearer communication with all kinds of audiences.

If getting support on an English assignment or having someone edit a document is what you are looking for, you have found the right spot! I’d love to help you out as best I can. Please send me an email and we can get the process started.

The Power of Punctuation

Punctuation marks are crafty tools used to send signals as we read.

When most people learn to read, they don’t take pauses and blast right past the punctuation marks because their focus is on the words. So, why include punctuation marks in writing?

When I was teaching punctuation, it was tricky for students to understand the role of commas and semicolons, and how to use them properly. Their writing was full of run-on sentences, which I think is a problem for a lot of folks. Sometimes we want to extend our ideas, yet we’re not sure how to do that. That’s where the power of punctuation comes in!

While teaching about punctuation and sentence structure, I would constantly come back to the power of punctuation. What power does the comma have that makes it special? What about the semicolon? The period, they got that one!

  • Comma: signals to the brain that a pause is happening so that we can digest the information we were just presented with in order to continue on with the same idea.
  • Semicolon: A longer pause that allows our brains to process the information and then realize that there is an additional bit of information that will connect to what we just read.
  • Period: A chance to take a break and take a moment to comprehend the information presented before we move on.

These pauses and moments take less than a second, once we understand what the symbols mean. Not everyone loves punctuation, but love it or not our brains use these little symbols to help us process and understand information. So don’t skim over the punctuation: it matters!