Raymond S.
Private tutor in East Rockaway, NY
Education
M.A. in History from Queens College, CUNY Courses: Introduction to Historical Research, The City in Antiquity, Latin American History, The Church in the Middle Ages, Alexander the Great, The Greek World and the Roman Empire, U.S. Foreign Policy, New York State History, Constitutional Law: 1779 to 1860, History Research, The Islamic Middle East in the Middle Ages, U.S. History 1920-1945, Studies in the Italian Renaissance, Seminar in History. M.L.S. in Library Science from Queens College, CUNY Courses: Fundamentals of Library and Information Science, Technology of Information, Information Literacy Instruction, General Reference, Social Sciences Reference, Sciences Reference, Collection Development, Online Research, Organization and Management of Libraries, Technical Services. B.A. in Comparative Humanities, SUNY Old Westbury Courses: Introduction to the Humanities, Hispanic Heritage, Rise of Reason: The Classical Origins of Western Civilization, Shakespeare: Selected Works, Introduction to Logic, Introduction to Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties, From God to the Machine: Europe from the 16th to the 18th Centuries, Islamic Cultures, The Nineteenth Century, African Cultures, Senior Seminar: Modernity and its Discontents.
Experience
Do you need tutoring at the college or graduate school level in a discipline in the Social Sciences or Humanities? Look no further! I am a professional Librarian and Adjunct Professor with Masters’ degrees in Library Science and History. My specializations are in the Social Sciences and Humanities, particularly in History, Political Science, Library Science, Law, Literature and Philosophy. I teach students how to write at the college and graduate school levels with a record of SUCCESS! Patient and flexible, I will work around your schedule and will meet at the location of your choice, in Nassau County, Manhattan or Queens County. I am an expert in Information Literacy, having taught the core competencies of Information Literacy, including: 1) Formulating questions about the topic you want to research 2) Locating the materials needed to answer those questions, whether in print or electronic format 3) Analyzing the sources you have found to determine reliability, bias and relevance 4) Synthesizing the information you have gathered from the sources to see how they relate to each other, discerning fact from opinion and areas of agreement and disagreement 5) Putting the information together in a logically consistent way by writing a scholarly paper. This includes organizing the paper with an introduction, body, conclusion, and making sure that it is in an acceptable format set forth by one of the style guides, such as MLA (Modern Language Association), Chicago Style, or APA (American Psychological Association). I will not sell your papers or write them for you, but I can help you improve your research and writing. Examples of my work are available on my Academia.edu page at: https://queens-cuny.academia.edu/RaymondSolga
Subject Expertise
GeographyUS HistoryUS Constitutional HistoryThe Modern WorldTechnical WritingStudy Skills And OrganizationStudy SkillsSocial SciencesShakespearePersuasive WritingLiteratureLegal WritingLegal ResearchLawLatin America HistoryHistoryAmerican HistoryExpository WritingEuropean HistoryEthicsEssay EditingEnglishCreative WritingConstitutional LawCollege EssaysCivicsClassicsAncient and Medieval HeritageVocabularyWorld CivilizationWorld HistoryWriting
Availability
Any day at any time
Can Meet
Up to 1 hour away at my regular hourly rate
Hobbies
For fun I like to travel, swim, lift weights, go to the beach, read (particularly philosophy, history, philosophical novels), go to museums, go to concerts.
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