Beverley

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Modern Literature
Thesis
French literature

Tutor with M.A. from Georgetown offering lessons in English, SAT, analysis, and writing

English
Writing
Modern Literature
Thesis
French literature

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About Beverley

I hold my MA in English from Georgetown University, and my BA with Honors in English from Sewanee: The University of the South in 2016. I have been tutoring online and in-person in a variety of subjects, teaching students of all ages and skill levels, since I was a junior in college, and I have experience tutoring in English, philosophy, marketing, analytical writing, and SAT/GRE/Subject test prep on verbal/written sections in all subjects in the humanities or social sciences. In my first year at Georgetown in 2016, I was hired as a Graduate Writing Consultant for the Georgetown University Writing Center and the School of Continuing Studies, working with graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, and non-traditional degree students in a wide variety of subjects and professional degrees.

After graduating from Georgetown, I will work as a Research and Editorial Assistant at Yale University on three volumes for the Library of America. In January 2017, I received a one-year fellowship from the Cosmos Club Foundation (DC) in support of a proposal to work with and write a biography of a Yale English Professor with whom I have continued to work for the past year, and I will be back in Yale for another summer after graduation. I just finished my M.A. thesis on Modern poetry, continental philosophy, and the aesthetic and philosophical tradition of the sublime in the poetry of W.H. Auden and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. As an undergraduate, I wrote an Honors English thesis that was accepted for publication shortly after I earned my B.A. in 2016: the paper, "Madness as Prophecy in Dystopia: From Shakespeare's Hamlet to Nietzsche's Philosophy, and Heller's Satire of Wartime Insanity", now appears in Janus Head: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts (Issue 16.1, Spring 2017). My criticism also appears in Driftwood Press, and my Creative Nonfiction -- including pieces I wrote at the 2016 Yale Writers' Conference -- appears in Tulip Tree Press. I have given conference papers on Shakespeare, continental philosophy, critical theory, and Greek attic tragedy at the MMLA, and these, too, are pending publication. I have always loved studying English and interdisciplinary subjects in the humanities more generally, and I am eager to pass on any knowledge I can!

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I have my M.A. in English and give lessons in philosophy, SAT/GRE test prep, English, literature, reading, analytical thinking, critical theory, research methodology, marketing, and writing more generally. My methodology varies depending on what subject I am tutoring in. For standardized test prep, I have a few basic rules of thumb that I stick to formulaically: cover up the answers with your hand and think of your own answer before looking at them, write it down, then pick which one matches it best (otherwise it can trick you); answer the prompt directly in your writing, pick a side and argue it with examples and analyses; and so forth. On a more personal and teaching-oriented level, I have several go-to methodologies that have proven successful in inspiring students to exercise their reading and writing strengths in the past. I have extremely strong analytical skills and this has been a natural advantage in communicating methods for analytical writing, verbal reasoning, or reading and interpretative sections of the GRE, SAT and other standardized tests. From years of tutoring, I have learned how to connect on a leveled basis with students who were, as I was about the math section of my test, discouraged and hopeless. I like to ask seemingly simple questions, like "So here he's talking about this broad topic, X Y and Z -- and why do we care?" or "Did anything strike you as weird or obscure about this passage?", "What part of this reading struck you in what way, and tell me in your own words what you'd say [for the analytical essay or for the multiple choice answer]".

I enjoy problem solving and analytical thinking, and I find that I engage students and bring forth their best insights by asking myself the same questions I asked myself when I took these tests, or questions that professors have asked me about reading a passage or writing an essay. From working with teenagers who are disconsolate about spending their summer break studying for the SAT, I know that it can be difficult to engage a student who has been asked to do this by a parent, and I communicate on them on the same level: "Why do you care? I mean, we aren't all specialists in astronomy, or we didn't all go live at Walden pond, right? But what does this say about human experience and what is the larger significance that makes it matter enough to be on this test, and should make it matter to you?"

I am fundamentally familiar with the methodology and teaching techniques pertinent to the Verbal Reasoning and Analytical Writing sections of the GRE. I am aware that the SAT format, and various subject tests, have changed since I took the test in 2011-2012, and saw how the test had expanded in tutoring a teenager in reading, writing, and everything except math for the 2016 SAT. We both had a copy of the same book, and I reviewed it beforehand, so it wasn't a difficult transition at all. I also believe that the same skills -- analytical efficiency, test-taking methods and tips, and thoughtful responses to any prompt -- apply universally across standardized testing in my experience: I took various SSAT, SAT, GRE, and so forth, and I never received help or preparation for any of them: it was just intuitive. So I'm confident that my natural skills for testing and some self-schooling in the updates and standard practices for the new SAT methods should bring me up to date quickly and effectively for SAT students these days.

As far as subject tests go, I use the same methods -- answer the question in your own words and write it down before looking at the answers; outline before you write; respond directly to the prompt; take your side and argue your heart out. And because the subject tests that I'm qualified to teach are English and the IB Philosophy, both for the GRE and for college admissions standardized testing, I have the empirical basis necessary for familiarity with the field and have covered a broad range of the materials in my own endeavours, though I certainly wouldn't mind learning new things to be a better tutor.

Also, because I took a comprehensive exam in college -- my college was one of few who required it -- I'm more than prepared for the GRE English subject test and had to learn the entire Western canon, from the book of genesis to contemporary fiction, for my comp. And we didn't have multiple choice answers, either, so we really had to study the movements in depth -- meaning that I can really pull an answer out of a hat for most of these, since we had to respond in extensive written essays. And I specialize in critical theory, which combines philosophy and criticism, so that's part of the GRE Subject test that I'm extremely well acquainted with.

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