Sabina BarberBoise, IDMaster of English Rhetoric and Composition, taught English writing at the university for two years
Thank you for taking the time to read my letter. I am highly interested in being an essay writing tutor for Lessonpal. I love collaborating with people through writing, and I love helping people become the best writers they can be.
During my Rhetoric and Composition Master’s program, I was a graduate teaching assistant for English 101 and 102. As a graduate teaching assistant, I taught six classes of English writing (from my own syllabi), where I saw numerous issues in student writing. I worked with my students one on one to help them fix their writing by going into their shared Google Drive documents and heavily editing and revising their work through comments and suggestions. Throughout all six classes that I taught, I prioritized giving my students individualized attention after every essay they turned so that they could learn from their mistakes and become stronger writers with every assignment.
While I was helping my own students with their writing, I was also working with my cohort outside of class. We would have video calls from eight at night until two in the morning where we revised and edited each other's papers to ensure that we were producing high quality work for our professors. Through collaboration with my peers, we helped each other grow as writers, editors, and thinkers. We pushed each other and supported each other to become the best we could be, and I would love to take these skills and bring them to others through Lessonpal.
From my experiences of teaching and being a student, I know that writing takes individualized attention. Everyone is at a different place in their writing, and everyone needs help with different things. However, regardless of the challenges that people face in their writing, I am confident that I have the skills, experience, and passion for writing, editing, and interpersonal collaboration to help others become the best writers they can be.
