I have been teaching and tutoring in the classroom over twenty years. I have worked at high school and college tutoring centers. In addition, I scored English papers for the Bellevue (WA) School District, for two years, and for the Educational Testing Service for eleven years since 2007, including two years as a scoring supervisor. PMy students have won national awards for their essays. Primary obstacles hinder a student’s learning: confidence or an uncertain relationship with words, grammar / punctuation skills, and problems when English is a second language. Too often students have not had the experience of seeing their…