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Interview

Which subject(s) do you teach?
I tutor English and Literature as well as offering Expert Feedback on essays, dissertations, UCAS forms and Creative Writing Projects. I prepare students for examinations up to PhD levels. I am also a qualified NLP Master Practitioner and have found NLP very useful in enhancing students' confidence and creative thinking. I am currently training as a facilitator with Liverpool influential Get into Reading (GIR) Scheme. I carry out tutoring via email/telephone too and this is very helpful for students preparing essays and projects. I write for Carol Ann Duffy's web site Sheer Poetry and am particularly fond of teaching Shakespeare, Victorian literature, Contemporary Fiction, Creative Writing, the Short Story and Toni Morrison. I have just published two new introductions for the Worth Press' editions of Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol and my current project should be available for students to buy/read off my web site early in 2010.

Tell me about your qualifications.
I hold First Class Hons. English/Russian Studies (with prize), an MA in Victorian Literature and a Phd in Katherine Mansfield and the Short Story all from Liverpool University. I also hold a PGCE from Manchester, QTS and CRB. I am also a qualified NLP Practitioner and am shortly emabrking upon Master Practitioner Training with Peter McNab and excellenceforall.

What kind of experience do you have?
I have over 20 years experience teaching and lecturing. I worked initially at Bolton School, then Liverpool John Moore's University and then Bolton University before setting up my own Expert English Tuition Business.

How much do you charge?
I charge £20-25 up to undergraduate levels and then £30 for postgraduate students.

Where do you teach?
I teach at home exclusively and run courses for groups locally as well as working occasionally at Bolton University.

When are you available?
As my website suggests, I work during the weekdays both in the daytime and evenings and also on Saturdays.

Which ages and levels do you teach?
I tutor from entrance examination level to postgraduate levels. This is a significant range!!

Do you have a CRB disclosure certificate?
Yes.

Where and with whom did you train?
I am an NLP Master Practitioner having trained with the NLP Master Trainer Peter McNab.

Tell me about some of your current students.
I am teaching a range of students from Key Stage 3 to PhD levels. I teach online and am currently developing new strategies for encouraging Creative Writing and thinking as well as textual analysis. I promote enthusiasm and First Class thinking.I am also now working with Moira Eribenne an Asperger's Co0ordinator and Practitioner in order to offer support and advice to families and individuals with Asperger's and high functiioning asperger's. Details are on my site.

Do you have a personal message for students?
I believe firmly in the value of self-confidence and enthusiasm for promoting students' self-belief and academic success. EVERYONE can benefit from one-to-one tuition. I am also a published writer and this passion for words I try to transmit to all my students.

Articles

The Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's Last Post
Subject: University English
Topic: anecdotes and stories
Created: 03/08/2009

Sarah Waters' and Carol Ann Duffy's Pearls?
Subject: A-level English
Topic: recommendations (study materials)
Created: 21/09/2008

William Trevor's Cheating at Canasta
Subject: University English
Topic: recommendations (study materials)
Created: 21/09/2008

To The Lighthouse: Woolf's Elegy to the past?
Subject: University English
Topic: subject research
Created: 13/05/2008