FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
For tutoring in English grammar, reading, comprehension, writing, math and science (i.e., chemistry, biology, physics) my pricing is competitively economical, and in most cases, negotiable. Very rarely has my pricing exceeded $15 per hour. In fact, in most cases, it hovers around $10 per hour. For resume writing and cover letter production, the pricing is $7 per hour. Typically, a truly polished resume and cover letter of more than two pages will take anywhere from ten to twenty hours. This is so because I will do research on industry type, a specific company, demographics and the colloquial or technical language used as standard or specialized to convey knowledge/experience and competency/ability. However, for those with compact tenured work or professional experience, a resume will tend to be a single page; these usually take less than ten hours. The pre-editing, formatting, and copy-editing of works intended to be published requires meticulous attention: for one of these to be performed the pricing is based on the word count at $ 0.01 (e.g., 10,000 words @ $100), which is quite competitive. For two or all of these to be performed for a work that is 10,000 words or less, there is a $200 flat rate for as long as it takes. 10,000 words to 100,000 the flat rate is $300 for as long as it takes. 100,000 words or more, $400 to begin the process for two weeks, after two weeks, the pricing is a comfortable $5 per hour. (Note: formatting changes dramatically when a publisher receives your proof [i.e., digital manuscript]. It is highly recommended that formatting before submitting a proof only entails how words, sentence structures, and paragraphs are intended to be represented in visual arrangements.)
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
An assessment is needed to understand one's capacities and ability. Overall concerns and desires then play a major role in the customization of a visualized archetype of our goal, and through greater refinement based on it, a materialized result realized through a process of integrating and ultimately enhancing capacity, and reflexively, the successful augmentation of one's ability.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
After receiving a certificate in Early Childhood Development (1990), and of course a Liberal Arts education at Olive Harvey College, one of the Chicago Citywide Colleges, I interviewed and was consequently hired at the Chicago Public Schools to work as a Teacher Aide for children with learning disabilities on Chicago's South Side. After five years, I then moved to a higher level position involving supplemental instruction for junior and senior year students in English, literature, math and science for several High Schools within the Chicago Public Schools system of education. I began tutoring as a Teacher Aide in 1997 in the After Schools Program initiated by Chicago Public Schools. After the loss of my position based on economic factors affecting the budget for Teacher Aides citywide, I began to develop a greater freelance relationship with community organizations. This was possible because of the network of professionals I nurtured associations with in the After Schools Program, which were based on the recognition of my ability to offer gracious amounts of not just tutoring, but mentoring time to children suffering economic hardships. For the past fifteen years I have perused a career in professional Creative Non-fiction writing and have produced two major works on the subjects of psychology, philosophy, and history within that time.