Student Tutoring

Students writing today are in an impossible position: expected to demonstrate skills they have never been taught. Inkling can help — in-person or virtually — with patient, positive coaching tailored to each individual writer.

Improve your writing today

Write the Inkling Way

Real talk: Most students don’t learn how to write anymore because most schools don’t teach them. But academic success and professional opportunities still depend on the ability to write:


  • High school assignments.
  • Common App essays.
  • Personal statements.
  • College papers.
  • Writing samples for internship and job applications.


At Inkling, we tutor students from middle school to college, on everything from general skills and common formats to specific writing projects. We will work with you set concrete goals and expectations — and then meet those goals in as little time as possible.

Excel in writing today

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Write the Inkling Way

Good writing is clear and concise. So Inkling’s tutoring helps young writers:

  • Develop their ideas.
  • Organize their thinking before they start writing.
  • Overcome the paralysis of the blank page.
  • Hone their first drafts into sharper, intelligent compositions.
  • Find their own personal style.
  • Build confidence and skills with every draft.

Writing skills for success now and in the future

We teach writing

The principles and strategies Inkling teaches, our students can apply to any form, class, or subject, every time they pick up their pens or open their laptops.

Lifelong skills

We prepare our students not for one assignment or class, but for a lifelong fellowship with the English language.

One-on-One

At Inkling, our student tutoring is one-on-one. Virtually or face-to-face, we give all our students the attention they deserve and the space they need to find their true voices.

"You can make anything by writing."

- C.S. Lewis

Inkling's experience

Founder and Principal Michael Connolly has been mentoring and coaching young writers for 20 years. As a full-time teacher, he created writing curricula for middle and high school students, and ran writing camps in the Summer. During a long speechwriting career, he helped young Capitol Hill staffers to develop the writing skills their educations left out. Today, Connolly continues this work through Inkling’s student tutoring, professional coaching, group workshops, and formal classes.


Send Inkling an email today, or call our Falls Church, Va. office at 703-594-9784.

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