Academic and Creative Writing Workshops

1. I tutor or teach (whichever is needed) course content.

2. I support students in developing their organizational skills.

3. I work with students to create a Writing workshop Syllabus.

4. I work with students to develop analytical strategies for students to use to deconstruct readings and construct their own ideas. These Strategies enable students to write compelling essays and papers on a variety of Subject Matter.

5. I teach students critical Reading Comprehension skills and strategies which enables students improve their Reading and Writing skills.

6. I work with students to strengthen their Critical reasoning Skills to improve their Academic and Creative writing.

5. I work with students on their Theses and Research papers: I help students map out and develop their ideas and I teach students skills and systems to help them learn to edit their final products.

Example subjects

1. ENGLISH LITERATURE

1. Select a passage of no more than ten lines from Act I, II or III of Hamlet that requires an
appreciation of a cultural or political aspect of Elizabethan life to understand. Complete
the following:

2. Provide a literal ‘translation’, in your own words, of the passage.

1. HAMLET
○ Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,
○ trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it as many of your players do,
○ I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
○ Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand thus,
○ but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest,
○ and, as I may say , whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a
temperance that may give it smoothness.
○ O it offends me to the soul, to hear a periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to
tatters, to very rags to split the cars of the groundlings

HAMLET

Act III, Scene II

2. HAMLET (Translation in my words)
○ Perform the speech, I implore you, exactly as I provided it to you,
○ pronounce the words believably and conversationally; but if you over-act the same as other actors
○ Then I might as well have hired the town crier to perform the play
○ Don’t use exaggerated gestures–like this
○ but gesture gently instead: because even when a scene is heated
○ and, I concede, may even call for passion, you must perform this display of passion with a temperament that appears organic.
○ O I hate it with a passion when I hear an actor in a silly wig completely destroy a performance with exaggerated words and gestures just so those in the cheap seats can hear and see him

2. BIOLOGY

Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Reflection paper

Biological systems, such as Humans and Plants, use Free Energy and Molecular Building to grow, reproduce and maintain Dynamic Homeostasis. All organisms need a constant input of Energy. However, there is a difference in how different organisms get this necessary input of Energy. Most organisms undergo either Photosynthesis or Cellular Respiration. Some organisms (e.g. Plants, some Bacteria and some Algae) undergo both processes. During Photosynthesis, the organism’s objective is to store energy and during Cellular Respiration, the organism’s objective is to release the energy stored in Macromolecules consumed so that the energy could be used. Animals (e.g. Humans) undergo Cellular Respiration while Plants undergo Photosynthesis.

ATP (Adenosine triphosphate) is a rechargeable and reusable energy source. The energy stored in the ATP bonds powers most cellular processes. After each ATP molecule has powered it’s corresponding Cellular Process, the ATP molecule gets reduced to its low energy form ADP (Adenosine diphosphate). ADP is able to get recharged to ATP using Glucose and a series of Chemical Processes. The process through which ADP is recharged to ATP is called Cellular Respiration. Photosynthesis depletes the ATP supply while Cellular Respiration replenishes the ATP supply.

Photosynthesis:
6CO₂ + 6H₂O +Sunlight + ATP ⟶ C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂

The reaction above (Photosynthesis) happens in specialized Compartments in the Chloroplasts of Plant Cells. Inorganic Carbon, in the form of CO₂, is converted to Organic Carbon in the form of Glucose (C₆H₁₂O₆). Glucose is a type of Simple Sugar used by Animals as an Energy source during Cellular Respiration. Oxygen gas (O₂) is produced as a Waste product of Photosynthesis. Animals need Oxygen gas (O₂) to undergo Cellular Respiration. Water (H₂O) is a necessary Reactant in Photosynthesis. Sunlight and ATP provide the Energy needed for Photosynthesis.

Cellular respiration:
C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂⟶ 6CO₂ + 6H₂O + ATP+ Heat

Cellular Respiration happens in the Cytoplasm and Mitochondria of cells (e.g. Animal cells). Glucose is converted to CO₂. Plants need CO₂ to undergo photosynthesis. Water (H₂O) is also produced as a Waste Product of Cellular Respiration and Plants need H₂O to undergo Photosynthesis. The ATP produced by Cellular Respiration is an Energy Source for Photosynthesis. Aerobic Cellular Respiration requires oxygen gas (O₂).

Products of Photosynthesis become the Reactants in Cellular Respiration and the Products of Cellular Respiration become the Reactants in Photosynthesis (the Sunlight used in Photosynthesis is analogous to the Heat produced by Cellular Respiration). This relationship between Plants and Animals creates an Ecosystem where Plants and Animals are codependent on each other. If a change causes an inhibition of Photosynthesis, that change would also inhibit Cellular Respiration. Similarly, if there is a change that negatively impacts the conditions of Cellular Respiration, that change would also affect the ability of plants to undergo Photosynthesis.

How It Works

Collaborating with you to develop an individualized Workshop Syllabus

Academic and Creative Writing Workshops