Our Expertise
During our PhDs at the University of Toronto, we spoke with hundreds of graduate students across all faculties about their struggles writing their dissertations and finishing their graduate degrees. Based on what we heard, we developed Clarity Doctors Writing Consultants (CDWC) to support you through your unique struggles in your program. When you work with us, you tell us which types of writing support you need and we guide you through the structural and polishing phases of writing your articles, book, and/or dissertation.
As the first entirely online business to specialize in supporting late-stage graduate students in levelling up their writing, we provide you with structure and expert guidance to help you move from frustrated to flourishing. Get in touch! Let’s talk about how to support you on your academic journey!
Dr. Megan L. Harris
Megan (she/her) was born in Vancouver, on Coast Salish territories, where she lived through to the end of her undergraduate degree. Megan holds a B.A. (Hons.) in English Literature from the University of British Columbia (2009), an M.A. in English Literature from 1850 to the Present from King’s College London, UK (2010), and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto (2020), where she specialized in Victorian and Modernist poetry in the U.S. and U.K. from 1830 through 1945 and sound recording technologies from the phonograph to the radio and iPad apps.
Megan is a Sessional Lecturer at the University of Toronto in writing and engineering communication. Over the course of her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, Megan worked as a Teaching Assistant in thirty-nine courses in English and Media Studies at the U of T’s three campuses. She has taught ENG100 “Effective Writing” twice.
Megan is passionate about editing and teaching in ways that are rooted in decolonizing practices. For her, this begins with recognizing that prescriptive approaches to grammar that are too focused on the rules and on writing formulae often lead to greater confusion and unclarity. Instead, Megan’s approach to writing and to tutoring for English courses is focused on the paramount importance of context and content and well-structured arguments. This is the foundation of clear writing.
As one half of CDWC, Megan is committed to helping you write more clearly in your unique authorial voice. Together, we’ll explore how clarity and concision go hand-in-hand and you’ll develop and fine-tune these skills.
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Dr. Alex Djedovic
Alex (he/him) was born in Sarajevo and came to Canada at the age of nine. He got his B.Sc. (Hons.) from the University of Toronto in Human Behavioural Biology and Cognitive Science in 2008. He then got his Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Science in 2020, also from the University of Toronto.
While pursuing his Ph.D., Alex spent ten years teaching writing and argumentation skills. He has been a Teaching Assistant in twenty-four courses. He has also created and taught eight courses at the university level, including COG 342, a course on the nature of cognition, and COG 345, a course about the intersection of cognitive science and society. He has evaluated, edited, and taught writing assignments and material across several humanities and sciences disciplines, including philosophy, history, social sciences, neuroscience, biology, and psychology. His teaching and writing practice is intensely interdisciplinary.
He is passionate about helping you to improve your ideas. He takes great joy in seeing people improve their writing through hard work and gentle guidance and support. He is convinced that thinking and writing are intimately connected, and that better writing supports stronger, more precise, and more lucid thinking. He is excited to help you improve, no matter what your current writing struggle may be.
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