Writing Better Essays targets your essay-writing skills and helps you improve the depth and sophistication of your essays.
CHAPTER 1 outlines the process of researching and structuring a persuasive essay. Individual page layouts and annotated paragraphs highlight the features of a clear and cohesive essay.
CHAPTERS 2 and 3 focuses on key strategies that help students apply more effectively the TEEL structure. These include:
- thinking strategies: identifying and interpreting a range of evidence, making connections and comparisons, drawing conclusions from the evidence; making relevant links and logical assumptions; linking strategies: improving the logical sequencing of ideas, including links and logical signposts; and
- persuasive strategies: using words to advantage; applying appeals as abstract concepts to strengthen views; anticipating the impact of ideas on reader’s thoughts and feelings; attacking strategies: finding weaknesses in opponents’ arguments; showing why they are wrong; stylistic strategies: thinking about tone, style and choice of words in order to make a stronger and more persuasive impact.
CHAPTER 4 analyses the most important features of a range of persuasive text types including editorials, letters to the editor, blogs, feature articles and speeches. By following simple, step-by-step instructions students will write a variety of persuasive texts.
CHAPTER 5 offers grammar tips to help students write better sentences. It analyses common errors and shows how to avoid them.
Buy Now: $24.99 (including postage)
For essay writing explanations, tips and exercises see School Support: Years 7-10 and School Support: Years 11-12.
The English Works Pack ($100): Includes:
- a copy of each of the five workbooks (Techniques of Persuasion, The Language of Persuasion: become an expert; The Language of Persuasion: an essay-writing guide; Writing Better Essays: an integrated approach and Clear Writing: language and grammar);
- the CD-Rom support kit with extensive support material
- $10.00 postage.