Academic Essay Writing for English Language Learners

In this 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:

1. Advantages/disadvantages essays

2. Cause/effects essays

3. Compare/contrasts essays

4. Problem/solution essays

5. 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.

NOTE: THIS IS NOT AN IELTS COURSE. But... 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:

1. Generate great ideas for your essays quickly and easily.

2. Evaluate and develop your ideas to ensure they are powerful and convincing.

3. Use simple but effective methods of organizing your ideas into a logical, coherent, and cohesive whole.

4. Write clear and concise thesis statements and topic sentences.

5. Write attention-grabbing introduction paragraphs.

6. Write thought-provoking concluding paragraphs that will leave a lasting impression on the reader.

7. 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 essays questions in an engaging and persuasive way.  There is also a lecture that teaches a multitude of linking phrases that will vastly improve the flow of your writing, as well as a video that analyzes a real student's essay so that you can learn how teachers assess academic writing.