
Explore how body paragraphs develop main points from the introduction using topic sentences, supporting sentences, and closing sentences, guided by a clear outline.
In this lecture, I demonstrate in real-time how to create an outline and write an essay for the 'What is your favorite food essay.' Listen and watch carefully for writing tips not covered in other lectures.
Learn to craft college admissions and scholarship essays by outlining, selecting strongest points, and composing body paragraphs, introductions, and conclusions from your unique story for admissions committees.
Celebrate your progress in facing writing fear and treating writing as an ongoing process. Seek clarification and opportunities to revise essays to improve and achieve higher grades, as Sally did.
Howard demonstrates real-time outlining and essay writing using pizza as a focus, showing how to create a title for the outline, develop main points with subpoints, and craft introduction sentences.
Hi my name is Howard. Thank you for stopping by my course landing page. You’ve probably noticed that this course is much shorter than other writing courses. The fact is, many of us will find it difficult to dedicate 3 or 4 hours to taking a course on writing with all our other responsibilities and commitments. This course focuses only on key issues that many writers face and quickly presents solutions for overcoming them. Think about it like reading a summary instead of an entire book. Sure, the book may have a lot more details, but the summary captures the main points.
For example, many writers get stuck on the first sentence of an introduction, or they may start writing a body paragraph then lose their chain of thought. This course guides you through planning and writing essays. When you take a few minutes to plan before you start writing, you are less likely to become stuck. See, just practical, easy-to-follow instructions that will help you overcome writer’s block and become unstuck.
The popular writing prompt, ‘What is your favorite food and why do you like it,’ is used to take writers from the outline creation stage of essay writing to the first draft of a five-paragraph, five-sentence essay.
This course also introduces writers to the research essay. Just the name, ‘research essay,’ may sound intimidating. Luckily, this course walks you through each step of the planning and authoring process.
An updated downloadable makes it easier to take your essay planning and writing offline. You will find the blank templates invaluable when writing your essays.
Get ready to learn basic grammar and punctuation, essay outline creation, essay planning, and writing in a few easy-to-follow steps.