As a writing specialist for over 20 years, Jill delivers creative, interactive workshops, and one-on-one experiences to level up writing strategies and skills for professionals and students around the world. She teaches anxiety-free process, energetic writing, next-level line editing, analysis, and voice. Jill has been instrumental in admissions acceptance for hundreds of students to their top college choices, including Yale, Harvard, Duke, Notre Dame, and Stanford. As a graduate from American University, she received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, with a concentration in the Teaching of Writing. While working as a College Writing instructor at The George Washington University and The American University, she continued to conduct original workshops for prestigious DC Metro area institutions, such as the Pentagon, FortyPlus of Greater Washington, Montgomery County, MD schools, prominent law firms and more.
Jill has written for publications, such as The World & I magazine and The Washington Times newspaper. She lives with her husband and two teen-aged daughters in the DC Metro area and is currently writing a work of nonfiction to leverage authentic voices in the age of AI.
As a writer, I know writing should be fun. Even the dreaded Extended Constructed Response can be exciting when we know how to approach it, I tell students. It’s all about the writing process. When students come to me after years of tepid, awkward writing, I tell them it’s time they learn and use the writing process. Learning process—brainstorms, freewrites, outlines, drafts, line editing, and time—sets a student at ease, and in turn, creates a clear and confident writing tone. Instead of strange, stiff language, students are suddenly hearing their own voices coming distinctly across the page. Then we move on. What’s your angle on this piece, I ask them? Let’s find it in your exploratory writing. Show me where your narrative is unique, where your opinion shines through. Once students discover their own interests in every piece of writing, they can take ownership of their work, and a new confidence ensues as they realize they are now writers too.
Students will engage in personalized writing exercises, brainstorming sessions, stimulating reading assignments, a better understanding of their own course material, and discover an enjoyment for a craft they once thought beyond their reach. Services include: Elevating writing; improving writing habits; brainstorming, analyzing, and completing reading and writing assignments for any course subject; writing college or graduate school admissions essays; preparing for standardized tests; developing reading skills; discovering a voice.
Professionals will launch their career to the next level with personalized writing exercises, help creating presentations, writing speeches, or producing interoffice memos. Even graduate school applications, essays, and course work once thought out of reach are now attainable. Services include: Improving technical or business writing skills, preparing for a return to college or graduate school, completing graduate school course work, constructive criticism for business or personal writing, developing English speaking and writing skills, enjoying writing.
Students will explore topics, generate ideas, and complete essays that reflect their personalities and set their applications apart from the elite pack. Services include: writing one, two, three or several essays in this create-a-package. Students will be lead through the entire essay process—from brainstorming to line-editing—for each essay. Invite up to five friends for a low-cost, fun way to write college essays!
Create your own camp! Try one or two subjects, or touch on all of them during a six or eight-week session! Choose your topics, choose your dates, meet one-on-one, or invite some friends, for a creative and fun way to learn the writing process! Services include: writing college admissions essays, creative writing, elevating writing style, preparing for standardized tests, navigating subject writing, academic writing, and finding a voice.
Students and professionals will benefit from choosing or creating their own workshop experiences. Work one-on-one, or invite a few friends for creative or professional writing workshops that may be held in your home per request. Participants may write journals, short stories, and memoirs, while reading and discussing established works, and molding a creative idea into an actual piece of writing. Or, focus on academic writing, admissions, or professional essays. Learn More >
Through a combination of inventive teaching methods, engaging exercises and analysis of their own business projects, participants on any writing level will learn innovative and fundamental writing techniques that will take their writing to the next level. Seminars are held at place of business.
Editing and critiquing services are available for all writing genres, including business, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Services include: detailed comments and suggestions for revision, application of varied writing techniques, exercises to improve writing weaknesses.
One of the greatest struggles of parenthood is asking our children to listen to our advice. We know best because we have been there before. But when it comes to writing, many parents struggle to teach their children. For one reason, we are not all born teachers. For another, children are tired of hearing advice from their parents. This is their homework. They want to take ownership of something. That’s where I come in. As an experienced college writing instructor, and writer, I have been trained to not only to listen to students’ concerns, but to encourage and guide them painlessly through the writing process.
How long has it been since you last sat in a classroom? Students often float along without asking for help because they feel inhibited by other students, by the teacher’s manner, out of laziness, or many other reasons. When students work one-on-one with me, there is never a question that goes unanswered. Examples and suggestions are always provided. And students are always held accountable to complete work during our sessions. One-on-one sessions let students know their questions come first and their fear of reading and writing will subside.
Learning the writing process and gaining confidence in reading, writing, and analyzing doesn’t stop in the classroom. Once students learn the process, they may use it to complete work in all disciplines throughout school and professional careers.
No one wants to work with a tutor forever, and no one should. During my sessions, students are given the tools they need to succeed on their own. Depending on their skill level, students will work at their own pace and eventually graduate from my program.
Many tutoring companies hire inexperienced young adults to teach your children, and use cookie cutter lessons and advice for subject tutoring and admissions essays. When I teach your child, I look at the whole individual, speaking with him or her about interests and hobbies as well as strengths and weaknesses in writing and reading. I use creative methods to tailor every lesson to your child.
