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Prose Wizard’s primary English tutor, Dana Crum, has a history of success. Under his tutelage an ESL student from China went from getting D’s on papers to getting A’s. Crum has 18 years of experience as a teacher and tutor of English and creative writing. Horace Mann, Prep for Prep, Ramapo College of New Jersey, the Art Academy of Cincinnati and Virginia Commonwealth University are some of the institutions where he has taught. He tutors middle-school, high-school, college and graduate students as well as working professionals. Crum knows what skills colleges expect of incoming freshmen and what challenges high-school students encounter as they strive to master and demonstrate these skills.

What further sets him apart from the competition is his career as an award-winning poet, essayist and novelist. Every day he faces the blank page and writes under the pressure of high expectations and unyielding deadlines. As a result, he knows exactly what students go through when they sit down to write. Under his tutelage, students have won Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the same awards Sylvia Plath, Joyce Carol Oates and Truman Capote won as teens.


How It Works

Crum tailors his tutoring to each tutee’s idiosyncratic, ongoing needs and to her specific needs on that day. And he offers guidance and insight not just in essay writing and creative writing but also in literature, reading comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, conversational English, public speaking and performance poetry. Lessons are conducted in person, or online via Skype and similar applications.


Key Aspects of Prose Wizard's Approach
  • line-by-line analysis of challenging texts such as Shakespeare’s plays and poetry in general
  • exploration of theme, character, scene, plot, reversals, dramatic irony, foreshadowing, and other elements of storytelling (fiction, nonfiction and drama)
  • scrutiny of poetic devices, including form, meter, free verse, line breaks, rhyme, alliteration and assonance
  • analysis of figurative language, including simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, metonymy, synecdoche, symbol, allegory, paradox, hyperbole, meiosis, verbal irony, situational irony and dramatic irony
  • attention to aspects of writing craft, including prewriting, the five-paragraph essay, thesis, subpoints, textual evidence, introductions, conclusions, paragraphs, transitions and sentences (e.g., sentence-length variation, sentence combining, and sentence variety [e.g., parallelism, balanced sentences and periodic sentences])
  • studying etymology and word roots so as to facilitate vocabulary development
  • examination of descriptive grammar (parts of speech and parts of a sentence) and functional grammar (how words behave when used correctly)
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