Jesse F. from Boston, MA

As a favorite teacher of mine liked to explain, even the most proficient young writers are haunted semi-consciously by a “professor-specter” which they feel obliged to placate and in placating which they ironically stifle the deeper sources of their own acuteness. Tutoring and teaching various levels of “Comp” for three years at a junior college in Pennsylvania, I honed my ability to set forth all the grammatical and expository technical knowledge students need to make their writing correct; as