Welcome
My name is Nathaniel Jezzi. I have twenty years of experience teaching, tutoring, and supporting academic writing. I have held appointments at Lafayette College, Muhlenberg College, the University of Aberdeen, Bard College, and Cornell University. In addition, I have taught logic and philosophy courses as an instructor for the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. I hold a B.A. in Government from Georgetown University and a Master's and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cornell, where I received extensive training in pedagogy from the Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines.
~GRAPHY is an academic tutoring and writing support service. I have helped hundreds of students (ages 13+), postdocs, and faculty improve their academic performance and writing and prepare for the steps ahead. If you are a student struggling with a particular subject, project, or assignment or looking for support across all of you courses, I can develop a plan to help you gain confidence, grow intellectually, and thrive as an independent learner. If you are faculty or a postdoc, scholar, or scientist hoping to publish your academic research, I can provide the developmental editing, line editing, or general copyediting to help your work meet the demands of rigorous peer review.
Regardless of the topic, my central focus is critical reading and writing. For my younger students, I emphasize fundamental skills—reading for meaning, descriptive writing, and basic argumentation. For my college and graduate students, I provide guidance in developing and articulating a thesis, analyzing the argumentative structure of your work, and evaluating the effectiveness of your writing. For professional scholars and faculty, I offer detailed, careful, and comprehensive editorial feedback on the quality of your writing. My support also involves stylistic guidance and critique, including help with sourcing, sentence-level mechanics, clarity, tone, voice, and register. I welcome projects of all sizes and scopes, from feedback on term papers to more long-term mentoring relationships. Indeed, the more I can get to know you and your writing, the better I will be able to develop a program for helping you to achieve your writing goals.
I regularly provide writing support to colleagues and students in the literary humanities, classics, film studies, history, law and legal studies, anthropology, philosophy, politics, psychology, sociology, theology, comparative religion, and environmental studies. I am also well versed in the stylistic and methodological conventions used beyond these fields (including the natural sciences) and can support writing projects across many different academic disciplines. Additionally, I lived, worked, and studied in Germany for five years, where I taught English as a foreign language, including TOEFL and IELTS exam preparation. I am especially sensitive to the challenges of academic work and writing in one’s non-native tongue and welcome the opportunity to support students who are transitioning to new academic and writing contexts.
The ability to read carefully and critically and clearly articulate your ideas in writing and then persuasively defend them through reasoned argument is essential for academic success. Writing is a craft. Like any craft, it requires training and practice to acquire. Whether you are a high school or college student who is new to academic writing, a graduate student writing a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation, or even faculty drafting a new book project, I can offer you the expert guidance, rigorous feedback, and bespoke support you need to achieve your writing goals.
Thank you for stopping by. You can find a complete list of the services I offer here. If you would like to discuss a particular project with me, please do not hesitate to get in touch. I am also happy to arrange a no-obligation, no-pressure consultation (by phone, email, or video) if you would like to start a conversation about your writing, and the ways I might be able to help you make it better.