You bring
Your assignments and their due dates, your class material and notes, and whatever you’ve written so far. A blank page counts.
Writing · Online across Maryland
A writing tutor in Maryland for your next draft.
Bring the blank page or the full draft.
One on one writing tutoring for ideas, structure, drafting, revision and grammar, from 6th grade through professional writers.
Every family starts with a free consult with Lily. There’s no long-term contract, and you pay session by session.
Writing tutors: Aden N. and M G.
Online across Maryland
6th grade to professional
From $80 an hour
Pay session by session
What a tutor does
What does a writing tutor do?
A writing tutor at Lily’s Tutoring Services works one on one with a writer to build strong writing skills: finding ideas, building structure, drafting, revising and cleaning up grammar.
Plenty of Maryland students know what they think and still can’t get it onto the page. Others hand in full essays and can’t say why they read flat. Both are process problems, and a process can be learned.
Sessions start from the writer and the assignment on the desk. They balance the paper due this week with the strong writing skills the next paper will need.
Your writing tutor brings
The strategies: questions that pull out your ideas, a way to organize them, specific suggestions on your draft and a process you can reuse on the next paper.
A writing tutor builds your process. The words on the page stay yours.
A quick look
What are you working on?
Choose the closest match and see how writing tutoring handles it. Nothing you choose is saved or sent.
Whatever you picked, the next step is a free call with Lily, who matches the writing tutor to the assignment and to how you work.
Start With a Free Call→Ask about writing help
Tell Lily what you’re writing.
What’s the assignment, who will read it, and where does it stall? A few lines are enough. Lily reads every message herself and matches your writing tutor after the free consult.
If you’d rather talk it through, book a free call and bring what you picked.
5.0 stars from Maryland families on Google, tutoring since 2021
How it works
How does a writing tutor session work?
A writing tutor session starts from the assignment you bring and stays focused on the stage you’re stuck on: ideas, structure, drafting, revision or grammar.
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Ideas
Your tutor asks questions until the point you’re making comes out in your own words, then helps you decide which ideas earn a place in the paper and develop them from there.
Sounds like: “I know what I think and I can’t say it.”
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Structure
An outline turns a pile of ideas into an order a reader can follow, whether it’s an essay, a research paper or a report. You sort the points together, decide what leads and what waits, and end up with a structure you can reuse across assignments.
Sounds like: “I have the points and no order.”
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Drafting
You write while your tutor reads along, patient with a rough first pass, and marks where a reader would get lost. Drafting goes easier with a plan underneath it, and the plan came from the first two stages.
Sounds like: “I can’t get past the first paragraph.”
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Revision
Revision is where essays and papers get finished: cutting, reordering, swapping the vague sentence for a specific one. Your tutor shows you how to reread your own work the way an editor would. Those lessons build writing skills that carry into every later paper.
Sounds like: “It reads flat and I can’t say why.”
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Grammar
Grammar and clarity come last, once the paper says what you mean. Your tutor points out the patterns in your own mistakes and explains the rule behind each one, so the lesson sticks and you can catch them yourself next time.
Sounds like: “I never know where the commas go.”
Fix the argument first. The commas can wait.
Every level
Who is writing tutoring for?
Writing tutoring at Lily’s Tutoring Services is for students from 6th grade through college, plus graduate students and professional and technical writers.
Grades 6-8
Middle school
In grades 6 to 8, writing stops being a sentence or two and becomes paragraphs, essays and a first research project for English language arts, science and social studies. A patient writing tutor works on getting ideas down, learning to develop an idea across a paragraph that holds together and rereading a sentence before handing it in.
Grades 9-12
High school
In grades 9 to 12, writing means analytical essays for English class, longer research papers and, for juniors and seniors, the personal statement. An essay writing tutor builds the writing skills behind the argument, the structure and the revision, with the assignments in front of you. The SAT’s reading and writing section lives on the page for SAT prep in Maryland.
College and graduate
College and graduate students
College writing at Maryland campuses comes with a syllabus for every course, several assignments due in one week and a professor who expects a thesis. An essay writing tutor helps a college or graduate student plan a long paper, organize sources for research projects and revise toward a clearer argument.
Professional
Professional and technical writers
Writing tutoring at Lily’s also serves professional and technical writers: reports, proposals and documents where the reader has little time. Sessions work on structure, clarity and tone, and the draft stays yours.
Your tutors
Who are the writing tutors?
Aden N. and M G. are the writing tutors at Lily’s Tutoring Services, and Lily hand-picks which one fits each writer.
Aden N. · she/her
Online, and in person in Howard County
Writing, math and physics
BS in Applied Mathematics, UMD College Park
7+ years tutoring
M G. · she/her
Online only
Writing and executive functioning
Master’s, BA in Psychology
Aden N.’s approach leans on mistakes: she would sooner have a student try something and see what happens than wait to be handed the right answer.
Online writing tutoring works the same from Baltimore, Towson, Columbia, Ellicott City or anywhere else in Maryland. In person writing sessions are with Aden N. in Howard County.
M G. also leads the Hacking Your Potential track, and planning a long paper and starting it before the night it’s due is that track’s kind of work. See the executive function coach in Maryland, or meet the rest of the private tutors in Maryland.
What it costs
How much does a writing tutor cost in Maryland?
A writing tutor at Lily’s Tutoring Services costs $80 an hour for middle and high school writing and starts at $100 an hour for college, graduate and professional writing.
Middle and high school writing
$80 per hour
Essays, research papers and personal statements for students in grades 6 through 12.
College, graduate and professional
starting at $100 per hour
Papers for a required course, graduate projects and professional or technical writing.
The rate is the same online and in person, and you’ll know yours before your first session. There’s no long-term contract, and you pay session by session. A session you’ve already booked follows the booking and deposit policy on the tutoring prices in Maryland page. Questions about price? Call or text Lily at (443) 448-8867.
Why Lily’s
Why choose Lily’s for a writing tutor?
- Matched by hand. After your free call, Lily picks the writing tutor who’s the right fit for your writing and your schedule.
- The paper stays yours. Bring the assignment as it is, even three lines of draft. Your tutor reads it with you and explains where a reader gets lost, and you make the changes.
- Writing support sits beside the other subjects. Math, SAT prep and physics run one on one too. See our one on one tutoring in Maryland for the full list.
- Five stars from Maryland families. Lily’s Tutoring Services is rated 5.0 on Google, and more than 50 students have worked with its tutors since 2021.
Writing tutor FAQ
Questions writers ask first.
Another question? Email info@lilystutoringservices.com and Lily will answer it herself.
What does a writing tutor do?
A writing tutor at Lily’s Tutoring Services works one on one with a writer on the process behind the page: finding ideas, building structure, drafting, revising and getting the grammar right. Bring a literature essay due Friday, and the tutor asks what you actually think of the ending before anyone touches a topic sentence. The goal is a better writer and a confident one, not just one better paper.
How much does a writing tutor cost in Maryland?
Writing tutoring in Maryland at Lily’s Tutoring Services runs $80 an hour for middle and high school writers and starts at $100 an hour for college, graduate and professional writers. Online or in person, the rate doesn’t change, and you’ll hear it before your first session. There’s no long-term contract either.
What are the 5 C’s of writing?
The 5 C’s of writing are a revision checklist, and teachers list them a few different ways. A common version asks whether a draft is clear, concise, coherent, correct and complete. Lists like this earn their keep late in the process, once the ideas and structure are working, because there’s no point trimming a paragraph before you know what it’s for.
What are the 5 basic writing skills?
The 5 basic writing skills are coming up with ideas, organizing them into a structure, drafting, revising and getting the grammar right, and a writing tutor at Lily’s Tutoring Services works on all five. The names shift from one teacher to the next, but the same five stages run from a middle school paragraph to a graduate seminar paper. Sessions start at whichever stage the essay writing is stuck on.
Where can I find a tutor for academic writing in Maryland?
Academic writing tutors in Maryland work in two places: campus writing centers, which colleges run for their own enrolled students, and private writing tutoring services like Lily’s Tutoring Services. College and graduate students can use the center on their own campus. A private writing tutor fits a middle school or high school student, a professional writer, or a college or graduate student who wants one on one support on their own schedule, online anywhere in the state.
Can an essay writing tutor write my essay?
No, an essay writing tutor at Lily’s Tutoring Services doesn’t write, rewrite or fix an essay for you, and that’s by design: the paper has to be yours when your teacher or professor reads it. Tutors work on ideas, structure, drafting and revision. Homework help at Lily’s means help with how to write the paper, never a finished one.
Can a writing tutor help with a personal statement?
A writing tutor can help with a personal statement by working on what you want to say, how it’s organized and whether it sounds like you. The statement stays your own work, and nobody can promise how an admissions office will read it, so sessions stay focused on making it clear, specific and yours.
Do you offer online writing tutoring?
Online writing tutoring at Lily’s Tutoring Services is available anywhere in Maryland, and it works the same in Baltimore, Towson, Columbia, Ellicott City or any other town. In person writing sessions are with Aden N. in Howard County, and M G. tutors writing online only.
What should I bring to a writing tutoring session?
A writing tutoring session at Lily’s Tutoring Services starts from your own work, so bring the assignments you’re working on, the assignment sheet or rubric your teacher handed out, last week’s graded paper, the homework that’s giving you trouble and whatever you’ve written so far, even if it’s three lines. Homework help with writing works the same way: you bring the work, and your tutor brings the strategies. A blank page is a fine place to start.
Is a writing tutor the same as an editor or proofreader?
A writing tutor at Lily’s Tutoring Services isn’t an editor or a proofreader, because a tutor builds your writing skills while an editor fixes the text. Your tutor reads your draft with you, points out where it loses a reader, explains why and offers suggestions, and you make the changes. That kind of learning only sticks when you do the revising yourself.
Can a writing tutor help with creative writing?
Yes, a writing tutor can work with you on creative writing, from a short story to a poem to a single scene, by focusing on voice, pacing and revision. The work stays on your piece, in your style. Share what you’re writing on the free consult and Lily will match you with a tutor.
Does writing tutoring come with a contract?
Writing tutoring at Lily’s Tutoring Services has no long-term contract, so you can pause or stop whenever you need to, and you pay session by session. A session you’ve already booked follows the booking and deposit policy on the tutoring prices in Maryland page, which lays out the cancellation window in full.
How do I get started with a writing tutor?
Getting started with a writing tutor takes a free consult with Lily, who reads every message herself, and then a match with a writing tutor who suits the assignment and your schedule. Use the contact form or book the free consult directly, and bring whatever you’re working on. The first appointment usually lands within 7 to 10 days of the consult, subject to tutor availability.
Free writing consult
Bring what you’re writing to a free consult.
Set the consult around your next deadline, with any open time on Lily’s calendar.
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Your next paper
Bring the draft that’s stuck.
Lily talks through what you’re writing and where it stalls, then matches you with a writing tutor for one on one support. Writing tutoring runs from $80 an hour.
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