Now available for summer tutoring

The spring semester at Coastal Carolina Univeristy has ended.

I am now availabe to tutor middle-school, high-school, and undergraduate students.

I can help you or your child with:

- Grammar and punctuation skills

- Sentence construction

- Structuring essays and research papers

- Creative writing

For rates and more information, contact me at cfburch4@yahoo.com and place “Basic Ink” in the subject line.

Opening Soon!

Basic Ink Editorial Services & Tutoring will be open for business soon.

We are finalizing our rate sheets, and we’re adding another service before we get started: a clipping service for executives, small business owners, nonprofit managers, and community leaders.

The clipping service is for anyone who doesn’t have time to go through hundreds of articles each day to find the industry-specific information they need. Basic Ink’s Editorial Services will provide morning email delivery of links to essential reading, along with key excerpts from the articles we send your way.

Check back soon for more information!

The Value of Experience

Colin Foote Burch has a bachelors degree in English from N.C. State University in Raleigh, N.C., and a master of fine arts in creative writing, with an emphasis on literary nonfiction, from Queens University in Charlotte, N.C.

He spent 10 years in the newspaper business, including stints as the business editor and later the features editor at The Sun News, a mid-sized daily newspaper in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

In 1996, Colin was a semi-finalist for the Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowship.

He holds awards from the N.C. Press Association and the S.C. Press Association.

In 2006, Colin received a scholarship to attend the C.S. Lewis Foundation’s Summer Institute at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., where he studied under poet and playwright Jeanne Murray Walker, a faculty member at the University of Delaware.

Colin has taught Essentials of the English Language through the Classical Conversations curriculum.

In May 2008, he taught a class at Queens University in Charlotte, N.C., entitled, “The Role of Imagination in Literary Nonfiction Narratives.”

Colin tutors creative writing with the same philosophy established by the Queens University M.F.A.  program for workshops: start with what’s good, then make suggestions on what to improve, and how to improve it; deliver the news the way you would like to hear it.

In addition to his work at The Sun News, Colin’s writing has appeared in The Charlotte Observer, The (Sumter, S.C.) Item, The (Columbia, S.C.) State, Iodine: A Poetry Journal, Appraisal: The Journal of the Society for Post-Critical and Personalist Studies, and The Weekly Surge. While features editor at The Sun News, he contributed to special travel sections that appeared in The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, and several other newspapers.

Colin has a few more odd certifications: He holds Coffee Brewing and Intermediate Barrista certificates from the Specialty Coffee Association of America; he has been trained as a Level One Catechist in Catechesis of the Good Shepherd; and he has become something of an expert on imported and microbrewed beer while writing a weekly column about cold brews.