A writer’s tool is the word he or she knows how to use masterfully. Unfortunately or fortunately, not everyone can boast of this talent. However, it is the ability to skillfully put words together that ensures high scores for students today. And if you have a literary flair and can teach how to write logical texts, it makes sense to help applicants and earn on their abilities.
For the sake of time
We are not talking about full-fledged tutoring, but only help in preparing essays and essays. Admittedly, a person with a command of the word and a predilection for literary work is probably well aware of the activities of his venerable predecessors. Therefore, if there is an interest in national literature, you can safely take up tutoring. However, people who have, among other things, more chances to find customers, and a diploma of higher education in the humanities, preferably with a philological bias.
If this is not available, and there is no traction in the history of literature, it makes sense on sites specializing in the selection of tutors to place a questionnaire with the proposal to write essays or essays. Unlike literary essays, here you will not have to appeal to the works of fiction you have read from the school curriculum. On the contrary, the essays are abstract: tolerance, respect for elders, life and death, etc. Examples from literature are welcome, but not obligatory. Therefore, anyone with literary ability, an urge for verbal creativity and logical thinking can teach to write essays of this kind.
In addition, it is with the essay that most schoolchildren have difficulties. And they willingly hire tutors who can teach them how to present their thoughts competently.
Where to begin
With self-study, namely with a detailed study of the material, which in the future you will need to state. So, the essay task number C3. They call it an essay, but it has nothing to do with the classic essay, which implies a chaotic presentation of the author’s thoughts. The essay, which needs to be written as part of the Unified State Exam, has a strict structure. For compliance with this structure, the pupil gets extra points.
The task looks like this: a pupil is offered an excerpt of a problematic text (most often journalism, less often fiction or academic literature), on which it is necessary to write an essay. You need to identify the problem posed in the text, comment on it, identify the author’s position, state your point of view, argue it by giving two or three arguments, including fiction, and make a brief conclusion.
The tutor’s task is to teach the pupil to cope not only with words, but also with thoughts. He must learn how to think logically and write just as logically, and this is not a mere verbiage, but a necessary condition for success on the USE.
In order to better understand the subject, it is worth trying to write a dozen essays for the C3 task yourself and read the successful works, preferably with the comments of USE experts attached to them. Acquire special notebooks with practice assignments, study them, try your hand as a schoolboy, and consult other tutors, if possible.
Before you start, it’s worth doing methodological developments. You can use ready-made (look for open access on the Web), you can create your own. You will definitely need information: on how to write introductions and conclusions, on functional styles and types of speech and speech errors. Prepare a citation and a catalog of collocations and phrases that will help the student’s work. Be prepared to give out methodological materials in printed form (get a printer and paper).
Where to look
Tutoring sites are the most reliable option. To lure the first customers, you can dumping, that is, reduce the cost of the lesson. Besides, it is simply not ethical to inflate the price tag, not having tutoring experience.
Groups dedicated to finding tutors on social networks. Groups dedicated to taking the USE.
Schools and colleges: it is possible to leave announcements on school web-sites, it is possible to distribute leaflets at the exit, it is possible to hang announcements on the information boards (by agreement with the administration).
Acquaintances and friends.
