Alena D.

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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 (440)

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

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

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!

Julie

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jun 9, 2024

I really apprecate it

Faith

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jun 8, 2024

She was great at helping me get through it.

Laura

English - Literature

Jun 6, 2024

I really appreciate this service. When I am completely lost because it has been over 15 years since I have taken English she was very helpful!

Adam

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jun 5, 2024

great help, really enthusiastic about what they teach. very helpful and insightful.

Elizabeth

English - Essay Writing - College Level

Jun 4, 2024

It disconnected which was a little frustating.

Jamilah

English - Essay Writing - College Level

May 26, 2024

Need more time than 1 hour sometimes to review an assignment.

Stephanie

English - College English

May 25, 2024

I wish she would have shared the document with me instead of copying and pasting. It was difficult to follow which part of the paper she was discussing.

JAYLIN

FP - Literature

May 23, 2024

helped me make clearer writing

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