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Alena D.

Alena D. | Tutor in ELL, Essay Writing, Literature | 10241274

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About Alena D.

Subjects

ELL, Essay Writing, Literature

Education

Bachelors in General Studies from Southern New Hampshire University

Masters in English Language and Literature, General from Southern New Hampshire University

Career Experience

I am a content writer and a CELTA-certified language instructor.

I Love Tutoring Because

I love helping others understand literature. I believe every learner is an organic diamond with multiple facets that need polishing to help the diamond reveal its natural beauty and uniqueness; however, appropriate faceting (personalized learning) is necessary to highlight the potential of this diamond.

Other Interests

Birdwatching, Book collecting, Cooking, Creative writing, Dancing, Driving, Foreign language learning, Gardening, Jewelry, Listening to Music, Reading, Table tennis, Traveling, Writing


Reviews    (536)


Stephen

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jun 11, 2025
Alena helped me understand my research paper's prompt from a Christian worldview.

Calvin

English - ELL

Jun 7, 2025
I learn major information,and it was a great session.

Sheree

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jun 4, 2025
Nice, informative, and patient.

Vera

English - Literature

May 30, 2025
Alena made me understand what I needed to do for my assignment. With laymen's term and examples.

Ana

English - ELL

May 22, 2025
She was amazing!

Stephen

English - Essay Writing - College Level

May 20, 2025
Alena awesome tutor

Monica

English - College English

May 17, 2025
It should not have token me 8 hours to receive help. And I receive help from a someone not some knowledge about my topic. 24/7 is not the correct statement.

Jack

English - Essay Writing - College Level

May 17, 2025
The topic that I asked help for I never wrote of paper for. Aleana looked over my paper and made very good suggestions that I shou change

Mel

English - Literature

May 15, 2025
They were really nice and tried to help with as much as they were allowed to! Gave me a lot of great ideas on how to fix up my writing as well. :D

Freda

English - Essay Writing - College Level

May 8, 2025
tutor was kind and helpful

WENDY

FP - ELL

May 6, 2025
They were patient and very understanding

Sheridyn

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Apr 21, 2025
This truly helped me identify problems I had missed in my essay!

Kemberley

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Apr 20, 2025
It was very easy to use and the tutor was very kind and helpful.

Yan

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Apr 15, 2025
I think this session was very helpful! The tutor was patient, explained things clearly, and gave me useful advice on improving my thesis and organizing my draft. Thank you so much!

Alisha

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Apr 11, 2025
Alena was great and very patient with me

Patrick

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Apr 8, 2025
I'm getting the hang of doing the citation

Ahmad

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Apr 7, 2025
She was an amazing tutor, must try again!

Martha

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Apr 2, 2025
I really appreciate my tutor she gave me good feedback.

Marcus

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Mar 29, 2025
Great advice

Kristy

Async - English - Essay Writing - College Level

Mar 24, 2025
Great response time!

Obiajulu

Async - English - Essay Writing - College Level

Mar 20, 2025
Thank you for your constructive feedback. You did an excellent job but my cursor mistakenly click good instead of excellent

Stephen

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Mar 11, 2025
Alena is a great English writing tutor.

Yerusha

English - College English

Mar 10, 2025
N/A

Jahseph

English - College English

Mar 6, 2025
I just learned and understand alot more thank you and feel more confident writng now

Delaney

Async - English - Essay Writing - College Level

Mar 6, 2025
Your feedback was thorough and extremely helpful. I appreciate your feedback :)

Amilcar

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Mar 3, 2025
She is an amazing tutor.

Levi

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Mar 1, 2025
Alena D. was fantastic to work with and helped me out tremendously with building better body paragraphs in essays!

Marlene

English - Literature

Feb 27, 2025
Super helpful! I was stuck on continuing the body paragraphs in my essay and my tutor helped me on improving my thesis in the process. They provided methods and examples to help and to make sure I’m on the right track. I loved how this service is convenient especially during nightly hours, will definitely come again for tutoring! Thank you so much :D

MARIA

FP - Literature

Feb 23, 2025
It was good it helped me a lot

Emmaray

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Feb 14, 2025
My tutor was helpful and answered my questions.

Ashley

English - College English

Feb 14, 2025
shes absolutely wonderful

Christian

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Feb 14, 2025
great teachers

Lisa

Async - English - Essay Writing - College Level

Feb 13, 2025
Thank you for your time and patience on my journal assignment, I have learned a great deal of information, in this session. I will continue to take advantage of your resources. Have a great day. Lisa T.

Ashley

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Feb 12, 2025
love her

Sammi

Async - English - Essay Writing - College Level

Feb 7, 2025
This feedback was very helpful and was returned in fantastic time. Thank you!

Julie

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Feb 1, 2025
Tutor was super helpful and provided examples

Winston

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jan 30, 2025
Awesome experience

Rena

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jan 25, 2025
As brief as it was, it was wonderful to reunite with Alena again! She was a grand help in helping me conduct ideas, one of which was in progress before it cut out... But all the same, I could be onto something. Thank you! Anyhow, I greatly look forward to when we meet again! :D

Shaley

English - Literature

Jan 22, 2025
Really helped me understand and complete

Jordan

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Dec 18, 2024
It was very helpful.

Alyssa

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Dec 13, 2024
My tutor was really nice and I appreciated how patient she was with me

Karina

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Dec 13, 2024
good

Leman

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Dec 10, 2024
she was so helpful and kind

Nathan

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Dec 9, 2024
Great Feeback, I got more that I thought I would get

Nicki

Async - English - Essay Writing - College Level

Dec 8, 2024
This was my first time submitting a draft for feedback and I will absolutely use this service again. The feedback is helpful and I appreciate it!

sebastian

English - Secondary (9-12) Essay Writing

Dec 6, 2024
The session was able to help me point out my mistakes which was very helpfull.

Christina

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Dec 6, 2024
Helpful

Cassandra

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Nov 30, 2024
It was a great help because I did not realize my thesis statement was not written correctly for a persuasive paper.

Madeline

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Nov 22, 2024
v v good

Mary

Async - English - Essay Writing - College Level

Nov 21, 2024
Thank you for the feedback! I know there is a LOT of info in here, and I know it takes several times to get it all. I appreciate the advice!

Mason

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Nov 20, 2024
THank you , you ar ethe best

Yahni

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Nov 20, 2024
Thanks so much fro your help

Madison

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Nov 19, 2024
Amazing!!

Joshua

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Nov 19, 2024
This session was awesome! I really enjoyed the feedback, and I feel more confident about my work. Thank You!

Safiyah

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Nov 10, 2024
This tutor was so real. She reminded me of my actual English teachers in the past. It was so nice to have her feedback and advice; I loved this session!

Maurice

English - Literature

Nov 7, 2024
It was a lot of help. The tutor help me understand that I need to increase my knowledge in this subject.

Khoi

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Nov 3, 2024
omg, im saved!

Dillan

English - Literature

Oct 24, 2024
She was helpful! Not like Megan Y.

Charlotte

English - College English

Oct 18, 2024
The tutor that I was connected with, her shift ended before we got very far

Praveen

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Oct 16, 2024
Excellent

Liberato

Async - English - Essay Writing - College Level

Oct 14, 2024
NA

Mikayla

English - Secondary (9-12) Essay Writing

Oct 3, 2024
My tutor was absolutely amazing she was so nice and was really amazing.

ParthA

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Oct 2, 2024
I don't understand what I'm supposed to do in this week's assignment. I still don't know after the session.

Chinyere

Async - English - Essay Writing - College Level

Sep 30, 2024
You did good

Christian

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Sep 22, 2024
I think that the overall experience was amazing and that this person is amazing at providing explanations for my questions

Emily

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Sep 19, 2024
I really love having this available to help with homework.

Olasupo

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Sep 17, 2024
it broadened my understanding on things i struggle with for so long basically on thesis statement and in-text citation. This is absolutely helpful

Bristina

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Sep 11, 2024
it was a great experience even though i got disconnected

Katrina N.

English - Secondary (9-12) Essay Writing

Sep 7, 2024
I really appreciated how the tutor helped me work through it on my own, so I'm able to use this experience to guide my future writing.

Ashley

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Sep 5, 2024
I had never created an essay powerpoint before and really had no idea what to do minus my high school and undergrad knowledge of powerpoints. My tutor gave me great examples and a great resource that I can look at while I complete my assignment.

Shamia

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Aug 31, 2024
This was really fun. Even though it took me a while to catch on, my tutor did not give me the answer. She made me work/think for it. This is superb!

Jennifer

English - College English

Aug 18, 2024
Thank you Alena!!

Cassandra

English - College English

Aug 17, 2024
helpful

TAYLOR

FP - Literature

Aug 12, 2024
She was really nice! I like her a lot :3

Vail

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Aug 11, 2024
I wish the sessions could be longer.

Billy

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Aug 6, 2024
Awesome service with great response time!

Esther

Async - English - Essay Writing - College Level

Aug 2, 2024
I wanted to say "yes" to recommending this service to a friend but it doesn't allow me. If this comment section is only limited to a certain amount of characters, it should say that. Thank you for your feedback and giving me examples.

Yakeisha

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Aug 1, 2024
Normally, I find it easier for the tutor to leave comments on the document, but this tutor was unable to. After having connection issues for the past few days, I am in the room waiting to be connected.

Angela

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jul 24, 2024
she was really helpful and showed me guidance on where I should direct my essay :)

Milini

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jul 20, 2024
Loss connection

Rachelle

English - Literature

Jul 20, 2024
Very nice and very helpful! :))

Jeremy

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jul 17, 2024
Such an amazing, well needed additional resource to bettering our education.

Hailey

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jul 14, 2024
Super helpful and greatly appreciated!

Dianna

English - College English

Jul 13, 2024
My tutor was very helpful

Jessalyn

English - Literature

Jul 9, 2024
Really helpful!

Auston

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jul 6, 2024
very useful to use and my tutor helped me understand what I needed to do

Barsha

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jul 5, 2024
Thank you! I'm glad excellent tutors

Milla

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jul 5, 2024
It was really helpful in the sense that I was able to bounce ideas off someone who had a lot of knowledge in the subject.

Christian

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jul 2, 2024
This was a great option for help!

Christopher

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jul 2, 2024
Alena has been most helpful.

Alondra

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jul 1, 2024
my tutor was so helpful .

Betzua

English - Literature

Jun 29, 2024
She was great, helped me with understand a bit more.

Crystal

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jun 28, 2024
very helpful and nice

gloria

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jun 27, 2024
Alena was great.

Cassandra

English - College English

Jun 21, 2024
helpful

Tristan

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jun 16, 2024
more time needed with tutor.

Carita

Async - English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jun 15, 2024
n/A

Zina

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jun 14, 2024
great

Rene

English - Literature

Jun 13, 2024
This session gave me the gas i need i to tackle this assignment! Thank you!

Sara

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jun 12, 2024
Great tutor!
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