For when the problem is not this document
Editing and feedback act on one assignment. If the same thing goes wrong every term, neither will fix it, because the issue is a skill rather than a draft. Coaching is the service that changes what happens next time.
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The same feedback, every term, from different faculty
There is a specific pattern that brings people here. The comments keep saying the same thing in different words: needs more critical analysis, descriptive rather than evaluative, does not engage with the literature. You fix it in one assignment because someone told you what to change, and it comes back in the next one because nobody explained the underlying move.
That is a teachable skill, and it is not taught anywhere in most programs. Critical analysis has an identifiable structure. So does a literature synthesis, an argument paragraph, a methodology justification and a defense answer. Once you can see the structure you can produce it on demand, which is the difference between a fixed assignment and a fixed problem.
Sessions are live, one to one, with one named person who stays with you. They are booked in blocks rather than open-ended, so you know what you are committing to and what it costs.
- The specific move you are missing, named and taught
- Practiced live in the session on your own work
- One named person across the whole block, not a rota
- Booked around shift patterns, teaching timetables and jobs
What a block looks like
Typically four to six sessions
- Session one diagnoses the pattern across your past feedback
- Each session teaches one move and practices it on your work
- Written notes after each session, so nothing depends on memory
- A task between sessions, sized to what you actually have time for
- A named person who has your history rather than starting cold
The things coaching is usually for
Critical analysis
By far the most common. Rubrics reward evaluation and most drafts describe, and the gap between them is a specific and learnable structure.
Literature synthesis
Turning forty summarized papers into an argument with a gap in it that your study fills.
Research method
Choosing and justifying a design, and being able to defend it rather than only describe it.
Data analysis supportWriting under a workload
Planning, drafting and revising on a schedule that survives a full-time job and a family.
Defense preparation
A mock viva on your actual manuscript, with the questions your committee is most likely to ask.
Dissertation supportExam technique
For licensure exams, coaching runs off your score report rather than a question bank.
Exam preparationHow coaching runs
Send your past feedback
Two or three graded assignments with faculty comments. The pattern across them is more useful than any single one, and it is what the first session is built on.
You are matched to a coach
Someone with a graduate qualification in your field, named to you before you book. You keep them for the whole block.
Sessions teach one move each
Named, explained, then practiced live on your own work. Written notes afterwards so nothing depends on what you remembered.
You apply it to real assignments
The task between sessions is always your actual coursework, sized to the time you actually have.
One session, or a block
Every session is 60 minutes with the same named coach. Blocks cost less per session because a coach who already knows your work spends none of the hour catching up.
Single session
60 minutes
- One named coach, matched to your discipline
- Work on your own current assignment
- Written notes afterwards
- No commitment to book another
Block of four
4 × 60 minutes
- The same coach across all four
- A plan across the block, not four separate hours
- Enough to take one assignment from outline to submission
- Booked around your deadlines
Block of eight
8 × 60 minutes
- The same coach across all eight
- Spans a full term or a full chapter
- Skills built deliberately, not just deadlines survived
- Lowest rate per session we offer
Data analysis coaching is priced separately, from $165 per session, because those sessions require a statistician rather than a writing coach. Exam preparation is priced as a plan rather than per session, starting at $199.
Coaching is teaching. It is not a route around the work
- We do not write, draft or outline your assignments in a session.
- We do not dictate content for you to type.
- We teach the move and you produce the work, in your own words.
- No help of any kind during an exam.
- If what is being asked for is really ghostwriting, we will say so and decline.
Coaching is the service most clearly permitted by every institution we have seen, precisely because nothing is produced for you. Selling completed academic work is a criminal offense in 17 US states. Read the full policy.
Frequently Asked Questions
Editing acts on one document and ends when it is returned. Coaching acts on the skill, so the next assignment is better without buying anything. If the same feedback keeps recurring across terms, editing will keep costing you and never fix it.
Four is the common answer for a specific writing problem, and eight for dissertation-length work or a fixed exam window. The first session usually clarifies which, and you can start with a single session to find out.
Around your availability, including evenings and weekends. Most of our coaching clients are working full time, on shifts, or teaching all day, so that is the default rather than an accommodation.
Written notes are provided after every session as standard. If you want a recording, ask your coach: it is usually fine, and it is your call rather than ours.
Yes, and for exams it runs from your score report rather than from a question bank. That work is priced as an exam plan rather than per session, starting at $199, with the full retake program at $1,290.
Send us two or three graded assignments
We will tell you what the recurring pattern actually is, whether coaching is the right service for it, and what a block would cost.
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