Editorial Services
Transform your research into crisp, clear, publication‑ready writing.
1. Personal Statements
Whether writing for college, or just practice, I support students in exploring their personal narrative and creating a personal statement. Many of these questions are invasive and the context for college applications represents high-stakes writing. It is important that students feel prepared not only for tackling the prompts, but also the iterative process of drafting. This is why I aim to empower students with strategies and tips on how to manage the construction of such a document. This way they will have tools to build the infrastructure of the narrative, focusing on the coherence, inferences, themes, and overall coordination of their ideas. It is like building a house – you don’t worry about the color of the walls before the walls are even built. Word choice, grammar, and style, are all paint. We need a blueprint, foundation, support beams, etc… first. This is why I help students outline the chapters of their narrative, build the themes, and weave them in a way that is considerate to the reader and makes the author’s story accessible. At the end every word will matter, but it doesn’t need to matter at all phases of writing.
2. Book Clubs
Often students have bad experiences with reading, especially as it relates to comprehension tests. Book clubs are a vehicle to change the landscape. Through a shared reading experience, I work with families in engaging in inferential thinking and confidence in thinking. We use research-based approaches to engage in a deep dive of narrative-meaning making, and explore the curiosity we all have about the story, characters, and the decisions they have to make. This is done on zoom where the family puts me on their flat screen TV and I share the e-book (comic or text) on their screen. As we read, taking turns, I type what we all think and the questions we come up with on a document. This way people can all see their ideas live and are being acknowledged. After the reading session we review the document and celebrate our cognition. Following that, I talk with parents about ways we can improve and move the dial forward. Book clubs are done with the whole family (parent(s), student, and me). By having an artifact at the end of each session, we have a running record of our ideas. Also, at the end of the book I print out all our ideas in the form of a printed book. This can be fun to read together after since the family is the author.
3. General Writing Support
I help students with classroom-based writing along with unique projects. If a student needs help with their school essays, I provide editing support while teaching them strategies on how to tackle future prompts. Other students want to write their own book or engage in an independent writing project. In these cases the same rules apply, empowering students with strategies and an identity to tackle such writing tasks.
4. Thesis, Dissertation, and Capstone Projects
I help guide and support students in organizing, outlining, situating, and editing their research projects.
5. Social Skills
Join Dr. Blum in an in-depth analysis of character motivations, traits, dispositions, and agendas through different narratives. We can use carefully crafted AI-generated stories through prompt engineering for cognitive exercises or use an already written story. Together, we will strive to promote our social cognition through story analysis, both in text and comic format. Particularly through manipulating story content, such as creating alternative endings, and engaging with stories both receptively and expressively.
6. Conduct Your Own Research Project
Together, we will dive into your own research agenda. We will engage in a literature review, develop a methodology, learn how to interpret our findings, and essentially tell a story with numbers (particularly for quantitative studies). But most importantly, you will develop an identity as a scientist and strive to be an author by submitting your work to a peer-reviewed journal.
Measurement Services
Accurate, research‑based evaluation services to measure learning outcomes.
Training Data Validation Check
We can help check to see if the raters who comprise your training data are doing what we expect them to do in the way we expect them to do.
Vertical Scale Blue Print Development
We can help you develop the blueprint for measuring the variable of interest.
Scale Validation and Diagnostics
Check to see how well your survey is performing. How well is it measuring what you intended to measure?Â
Developing Proprietary Scale Units
Translate your scale into an interval scale with your own units.
Compare Group Performances Across Different Conditions
Create group categories and see how they measure among each other.