I’m an Adjunct English Professor with Union County College, located in Cranford, New Jersey.
I help students write with clarity and conciseness, but also bring a creative edge that makes their writing interesting.
Traditional rules are important, but advanced writing is crisp and to the point while also displaying a personal flair and conversational element.
Incorporating professional tools I’ve picked up at places like CBS Radio and SiriusXM, I show students that their writing can be more than just “good enough” to pass the class–it can be great.
Tutoring and College Essay Planning
College essays can be perplexing. At 17 years old, I remember thinking: hardly anything has happened to me yet, how am I supposed to write an essay describing my most defining moment? The questions seemed both incredibly easy and obvious, but also supremely challenging to answer, because of the pressure to be unique, intelligent, likable, memorable, creative…it’s intimidating.
I help students find sweet spots of inspiration to turn their stories and lessons into beautifully woven essays that produce college acceptance letters.
Essays I’ve worked on have seen admissions to colleges like University of South Carolina, College of Charleston, West Chester University, Ramapo College, Scranton University, Montclair State University, and Seton Hall University.
I received my master’s degree in English and creative writing in the spring of 2021 from Seton Hall University, graduating with a 4.0 GPA, qualifying me to teach college-level English. Click here to read the abstract and download the full thesis
Why tutoring AND college planning?
My expertise goes well beyond writing and editing. I’m currently an Executive Producer for a podcast production company, but I’ve also worked as a news writer for SiriusXM and producer at CBS Radio and the MLB Network. I worked in digital advertising for Turner Broadcasting. I spent a few years QA testing financial software and traveled to the headquarters of banking institutions like Deutsche Bank and Freddie Mac to teach employees how to use the product. I was eventually selected to rewrite the software manual.
What I’ve continued to do across every industry is translate difficult concepts into digestible information.
If your student is either in or going to college, there’s strategy to succeeding that involves more than good grades (and, there’s even strategy to get good grades that has nothing to do with graded assignments!). I landed my first interview at CBS Radio through a connection supplied by one of my undergraduate professors, which ultimately set the stage for my entire career–and it took planning to get there.
So we can always talk about writing, but if a student is interested, we can also talk about how to develop good relationships with professors, deciding on an internship, what you can do with an English, communications, or journalism degree, and why graduate school may or may not be the move to make after the bachelor’s degree.
I tutor locally in Union County, New Jersey, and prefer to meet students at local libraries. For rates and availability…
Contact me at: brittany.temple@ucc.edu
Subject: Tutoring