EDUCATION & LANGUAGE

Essay & Creative Writing Academy

Write better essays, stories and poems, in English or French. Six modules and 18 lessons: purpose and the thesis, introductions and conclusions, planning, PEEL paragraphs, evidence and sources, counter-arguments and fallacies, clear and concise style, sentence length and reading ease, revising, plot and Freytag’s pyramid, character, point of view, show don’t tell, dialogue, openings, imagery, rhythm and forms, and rhyme. Eight workshops: a thesis workshop, an essay planner with a word budget, a paragraph builder with fallacies to spot, a style meter that measures your own text (reading ease, fillers, passives, repeated words), a story mountain, a character builder, a dialogue doctor and a poetry lab that counts the syllables of your haiku.

Ready to try · Write better essays, stories and poems, in English or French. Six modules and 18 lessons: purpose and the thesis, introductions and conclusions, planning, PEEL paragraphs, evidence and sources, counter-arguments and fallacies, clear and concise style, sentence length and reading ease, revising, plot and Freytag’s pyramid, character, point of view, show don’t tell, dialogue, openings, imagery, rhythm and forms, and rhyme. Eight workshops: a thesis workshop, an essay planner with a word budget, a paragraph builder with fallacies to spot, a style meter that measures your own text (reading ease, fillers, passives, repeated words), a story mountain, a character builder, a dialogue doctor and a poetry lab that counts the syllables of your haiku.