
Learn to structure essays with an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Build each body paragraph around a topic sentence, supported by proof, and avoid adding concluding sentences.
Explore the anatomy of introduction paragraphs, including hooks, topic sentences, background, and thesis statements, and planning strategies that connect body ideas to the essay's essence.
Learn how linking words boost coherence and cohesion by signaling the order of ideas with phrases like firstly, secondly, and finally, improving flow in academic writing.
Explore linking words for adding supporting ideas in academic essays, use a variety of phrases and punctuation, and properly position connectors like too and in addition.
Explore contrasting linking words to express positive and negative ideas, using examples with but, however, though, whereas, and conversely, and note punctuation with semicolons.
Brainstorm and plan your essay to generate more ideas quickly, stay organized, and manage your exam time effectively. Avoid bad essays by prioritizing brainstorming and planning before you write.
Brainstorm and plan to develop deep, well-structured ideas by tracing root causes, mapping effects with a spider diagram, and organizing ideas to craft a strong essay.
Explore the format of essay types, brainstorm and organize ideas, address the difficulties and dangers, and learn to write introductions, conclusions, topic sentences, and utilize linking words and paragraph structure.
Learn to plan introductions and conclusions for an advantages and disadvantages essay, craft a thesis that covers all ideas, and argue that online study can be better than classroom learning.
Learn to craft topic sentences and organize body paragraphs in problem-solution essays by pairing problems with clear solutions and using sequencing cues such as firstly and secondly.
Learn to craft a problem/solution essay with strong introductions and conclusions, identify three sources of problems—vehicles, infrastructure, and businesses—and use workable, but sometimes expensive, solutions.
Brainstorm and structure a procedure essay on designing and building a website, detailing time-ordered steps, navigation and content considerations, and the vocabulary for academic writing, including SEO and hosting factors.
Explore how to write effective procedure essay body paragraphs by brainstorming topics, evaluating options like hosting services, and weaving in SEO keywords, navigation, and structure.
Explain the four steps for building a small business website—finding the right host, planning easy navigation, writing good content, and creating good media—along with the advantages and a brief history.
Master close reading to gather evidence by annotating passages, highlighting quotations, and identifying literary devices. Integrate short quotes with analysis, consider context, and avoid quote dumps to prove your thesis.
Move beyond simple summaries by analyzing symbolism and motifs, citing evidence from the text with quotes and page numbers through proper literary citations.
Explore 16 literary devices, starting with figurative language, including metaphor, simile, and personification, with examples from Romeo and Juliet, Emily Dickinson, and to kill a mockingbird.
Explore persuasive and dramatic devices including rhetorical questions, antithesis, irony, hyperbole, understatement, and analogy with vivid examples from Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Animal Farm.
In this essay writing course for NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS, you will learn how to plan and write different types of essay to a high standard in an academic, logical, and fluid way:
Advantages/disadvantages essays
Cause/effects essays
Compare/contrast essays
Problem/solution essays
Procedure essays
The course gives easy-to-follow strategies that will give you the skills you need to become a successful student now, and a successful writer in the future.
After you have finished the course, you will be able to apply your knowledge of all English essay types, then blend them to write essays for your university courses.
You can also use a lot of what you learn in the course to help you improve your IELTS writing task 2 score to 7+.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Generate great ideas for your essay writing quickly and easily.
Evaluate and develop your ideas to ensure they are powerful and convincing.
Use simple but effective methods of organizing your ideas into a logical, coherent, and cohesive whole.
Write clear and concise thesis statements and topic sentences.
Write attention-grabbing introduction paragraphs.
Write thought-provoking concluding paragraphs that will leave a lasting impression on the reader.
Use self-editing techniques that will help elevate your final draft to its maximum potential.
As a result, your teacher, lecturer or examiner will be impressed by the skill with which you answer English essay questions in an engaging and persuasive way. There is also a lecture that teaches many linking phrases that will vastly improve the flow of your essay writing, as well as a video that analyzes a real student's essay so that you can learn how teachers assess academic writing.