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Individualized Writing Courses
for Homeschool Families...
"Our goal is to address
the precise needs, interests, and skills of students who have chosen to learn at
home."
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Mr. Benjamin Ludwig
is the director of WriteGuide.com. He holds a B.A. and M.A.T. in
English Education. A former middle school English teacher, his short
fiction has appeared in many literary magazines, and he is the author of
Sound Spelling, published by Wordsmiths, LLC. He has written
extensively for CatholicExchange.com. His articles have
appeared in Envoy Magazine and in Heart and Mind: A Journal of
Catholic Homeschooling.. Mr.
Ludwig conducts all the
company's business affairs, and
trains all new writing consultants. He lives in New
Hampshire.
Mrs. Denise Cevela currently
lives in central Indiana. She was born in southern California and grew up
in Maine. After graduating from an A.C.E. school, she attended Bob Jones
University where she received a B.S. in English Education and an M.Ed. in
Secondary Education. She taught at Bob Jones Academy for six years
(teaching English as a Second Language, ESL Biology, ESL Literature, and
sophomore English). In 1994 and 1997, she traveled to South Korea to teach
English as a Second Language and some summer school courses. She has also
visited Haiti, Japan, and Canada. During summers and other vacations, she
worked at BJU Press, helping to revise the 7-10th grade Writing and
Grammar texts. In 1999, Mrs. Cevela moved to southern Illinois to
work on a second master’s degree in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of
Other Languages). She worked as a TA (teaching assistant) in the Center
for English as a Second Language, teaching ESL, English for Academic
Purposes, Writer’s Workshop, Current Events, Creative Speaking, and (her
favorite!) TOEFL Grammar. While in southern Illinois, she met her
husband, was married, and had two children—Joshua and Caleb. Mrs. Cevela
has been with WriteGuide.com since January of 2001, and she enjoys being
able to teach from home while taking care of her children and
homeschooling Joshua. Rebekah Ruth was added to the family in May of 2007.
She is a happy, healthy baby girl, and the family is happy to receive
her!!!
Ms. Ruth Daly teaches our
Introduction to Grammar Course. A resident of Irving, Texas, she
received a BA from Thomas Aquinas College and an MA in English Literature
from Catholic University of America. She is currently studying for her
Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Dallas.
Ms. Joanne Draper received both bachelor's and master's degrees
in Education from the University of North Dakota. She is preparing to
begin a Theology degree at the University of Wales in Lampeter. Ms. Draper has
been a classroom teacher for 23 years, teaching all grades from one
through eight. She has had her poetry published in Hereditas
Magazine and The Desert Chronicle. Her published
work also appears in a Glencoe/McGraw-Hill social studies series, as well as
Birds and Bloom magazine.
Mrs. Peggy Folan
lives in rural Iowa with her husband and three children. She graduated
from Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas and received M.A. degree in
English from the University of Kansas. Her B.A. is in also in English, with
a minor in Secondary Education. She is a homeschooling mom, and has
taught college-level English. She has written corporate correspondence,
contributed to training manuals, and published fiction and non-fiction in
a variety of publications, including Oblates, Byline, and
Today’s Christian. She also
writes our company's monthly TEACHLetter (available at
http://www.writeguide.com/teachletter.htm).
Mrs. Karen Ford lives in
Springfield, Massachusetts, with her husband and four children. A
graduate of Youngstown State University (located in Youngstown, Ohio),
she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Professional Writing and
Editing, with a minor in Journalism. In addition, she holds a
Master’s degree in English (also from YSU), and a graduate certificate
in Professional Writing and Editing. Mrs. Ford has taught
composition at YSU and at Westfield State College in Westfield,
Massachusetts. In addition to her work as a writing consultant
for WriteGuide, Inc., she serves as an editor for CatholicExchange.com,
where her first article was published. Mrs. Ford has written
grants for several organizations, and has served as editor for various
newsletters and websites. She enjoys writing feature articles
and is actively working on some short stories.
Mr. Robert Hanson
Robert Hanson is the father of five homeschooled children. He has ten
years of teaching experience at the high school and college levels.
His
BA in English is from the University of Dallas, as is his Masters degree
in Theology. He did his master's work in English at the University of
Texas at Arlington.
His most recent work, "Union and
Reunion in the Resurrection of the Body," was published in Aggiornamento.
Mr. Hanson enjoys camping with his family, singing, welding, discussing
politics and religion, and debating fine points of grammar with his
wife.
Dr. Keith Jones is a homeschool
father and an Associate Professor in the Department of English and
Literature at Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He earned
his B.A. in English Literature from Covenant College in Lookout
Mountain, Tennessee and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from
St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is particularly fond
of teaching Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Composition, Classics,
Asian Literatures, Women Authors, Literature in Middle English, African
Literatures, Feminist Literary Criticism, and New Historicist Critical
Theory. Dr. Jones and his wife have adopted three children from
Vietnam. Adopting children from Vietnam has expanded Dr. Jones' love of
Vietnamese culture, literature, and cuisine, and the children themselves
have taught him a vast amount about a wide range of subjects.
Mrs. Kathryn King grew up in the South.
She holds BA and MA degrees in English literature from East Carolina
University. She has since moved to New England to finish her graduate
studies, working towards a PhD in literature at the University of
Connecticut. She co-edited a Medieval Institute collection of monastic
rules, published an annotated bibliography in The Children’s Folklore
Review, and for the past ten years has been teaching college
composition and literature. She is happily married with three children.
Dr. Stephen Mirarchi has been
teaching American literature, film, and theology at the boarding school
and college levels for 11 years. An active journalist and book reviewer,
he writes regularly for national newspapers and magazines.
Dr. Kevin
Roberts has taught at the high school, community college, and
university levels. He earned his Ph.D. in American history from the
University of Texas at Austin. A nonfiction writer and a specialist in
the history of slavery and race relations, Dr. Roberts wrote African
American Issues (Greenwood Press) and co-edited The Atlantic
World, 1450-2000 (Indiana University Press). He has written a
number of articles about African cultures in the American South. He
has also served as a consultant for National Geographic's colonial
history series for children. Currently, he is working on two
book-length projects: Race Relations in the United States, 1980-2000,
for Greenwood Press; and an analysis of modern American culture's impact
on the traditional concept of family.
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