Words really do matter.
Don’t they?
Hello learners,
My name is Rebecca Beittel, or you can call me Ms. B.
I love words. I want to help you love them, too. One of my favorite literary quotations is by Ursula K. LeGuin: "Words hold things." They really do. In fact, words hold everything. That's why English class is so important. It helps us hold onto everything we learn, everything we say and do, everything we hope for.
I am an experienced college and high school English teacher, specializing in EOC test-prep, research papers, essays, literary and text analysis, writing across the curriculum, and professional writing. My business is helping you find, learn, and polish your words.
My goal is to improve my students' reading comprehension, grammar, writing sophistication, and ability to locate quality information in today's confusing digital age and synthesize it without resorting to AI. Understand words. Find the right words. Find YOUR words.
Tutoring, Editing & Proofreading
I believe that language is the foundation of every great idea. At Words Matter Tutoring, I provide a dedicated space for college and high school students to improve their English through personalized instruction, editing, and proofreading. My approach meets each student where they are to blend academic rigor with a supportive environment designed to help them find their voice, their words, and excel in English class and the larger world.
Whether her students are across the street, across the country, or across the world, Mrs. B can “meet” them where they are. It’s the same quality tutoring, editing, and proofreading her in-person students receive, with the convenience of virtual scheduling.
Learning.
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Why Words Matter
"Words Hold Things"
A quotation from novelist Ursula K. Le Guin
“If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what have you, and then take it home with you, home being another, larger kind of pouch or bag, a container for people, and then later on you take it out and eat it or share it or store it up for winter in a solider container or put it in the medicine bundle or the shrine or the museum, the holy place, the area that contains what is sacred, and then the next day you probably do much the same again—if to do that is human, if that's what it takes, then I am a human being after all. Fully, freely, gladly, for the first time....
[T]he proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us."
—"The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction”
Image by Wes Guderian, 1970 | Courtesy Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation
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