The perfect precursor to the best-selling Essay Architect ™, our Essay Apprentice ™ Writing System helps students who are unable to write a five-paragraph essay or need a lot of extra help with the essentials of good writing.  By building the basic foundations of writing through simple, yet practical activities, students learn the step-by-step process of creating writing they can be proud of.

Ø  Help students build autonomy and confidence through simple and practical creative writing activities and exercises 

Ø  Help struggling or anxious writers through the basic parts of an essay by working step-by-step on each part of the writing process

This unique, research-based, yet practical Essay Apprentice™ Writing System includes:

Creative Writing Exercises to focus on purposes and types of writing, including:

·         Writing to Entertain: Cartoon Strip, Horoscope, and Poetry

·         Writing to Inform: Recipe of Me, Quick Messages and Notes

·         Writing to Persuade: Personal Advertisement, Magazine Advertisement

Sentence Construction Activities focused on writing clean, succinct sentences that make sense:

·         Sentence Structure

·         Fragments

·         Main and Subordinate Clauses

·         Simple and Compound Sentences

·         Punctuating Sentences

·         Expanding Sentences

·         Sentence Variety

·         Sentence Combining

·         Using Modifiers

·         and more!

·         Paragraph Structure and Formatting

·         Developing Paragraph Details

·         Types of Writing

·         Writing Thesis Statements

·         Writing Introductions

·         Writing Conclusions

·         and more!

·         Structure of the Essay

·         Evaluating Essays

·         Verbal Discussion of Ideas

·         Organizing Ideas

·         Writing Group Essays

·         What Should an Essay Look Like?

·         Peer-Editing and Evaluation Activities

·         Sample Model and Non-Model Essays

·         and more!

·         Verbal Discussion of Ideas

·         Writing Thesis Statements

·         Individual Organization of Thoughts

·         Pre-Writing Process

·         Writing Individual Essays

·         Using a Dictionary and Thesaurus   

·         Reading an Essay Prompt

·         Essay Templates

·         Show, Don’t Tell

·         Using Idioms

·         Precise Word Choice

·         Vivid Verbs

·         Misspelled and Confusing Words

·         and more!

ISBN 978-0-9816243-0-3

Click here to VIEW sample pages of this Essay Apprentice Writing Guide