Jim Good
I am a retired teacher. My teaching experience was with the Virginia prison system, teaching math, reading and language arts, which included writing, to adult prisoners. I have served as a writing tutor to EMU graduate students for the past three years. I enjoy working with international graduate students in their writing assignments. I like to read and write for myself when I have time. I think that reading is a very good way to learn to write better.

Ray Horst
After teaching languages (English and Spanish) for more than thirty years, I retired in 2003 from my position at Eastern Mennonite University. Since then I have taught English classes for immigrant people in Harrisonburg and have served as a trainer of English tutors in the Skyline Literacy program. I have also assisted numerous EMU students at both undergraduate and graduate levels, with their written work.

Rather than tell a writer what is wrong with a problematic sentence, I prefer to ask questions about the sentence until the writer discovers the problem and sees the way to resolve it. I hope to help students learn to identify and correct their own errors, so that eventually they will not need a tutor.

Carroll Yoder
I taught French and English at EMU since 1971 before retiring in 2004. I also have had experience teaching English in Congo-Kinshasa and Congo Brazzaville under UNESCO and the Fulbright exchange program. I believe that writing well requires a lot of reading, hard work, and practice but is worth the effort because it teaches us how to think. When I tutor students, I learn a lot from them and the subjects they are studying.

Deanne Delp
I am a graduate of Messiah College with a degree in Elementary Education and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. I obtained my master’s degree from Millersville University in Language and Literacy Education. Currently, I teach English Language Learners ranging from kindergarten through twelfth grade at a public school in Lancaster County. As a high school student, I had an early start with peer tutoring when my older sister convinced me to assist her with college writing. Now, I enjoy helping students work through content and then mechanics. Ultimately, my goal is for my students to acquire independence as articulate, expressive writers.

Frantz St.Iago-Peretz
I am at the service of students for whom English is not a first language, i.e., Spanish. In my early days in college, many teachers and fellow students were a blessing. They helped me with feedback and tutoring. The areas in which I could help are: Biblical Hebrew, NT Greek, exegesis, Biblical research, i.e., Hebrew Bible (OT), and on the study of other languages. I can also provide help in the Turabian documentation style.