Writing Course

If you hire me as your tutor and we meet face to face regularly for a ten-class program, you won't need this package. I will give you all the material pertaining to the Writing Course and you'll be doing the course homework and writing lots of essays, which I'll be correcting outside of class time. The beginning of each class (no more than 10 or 15 minutes will be spent going over homework. And while practicing the Speaking Module topics during class, we'll often be looking at IELTS Task 2 essay questions that concern that topic.

This is for students who have little experience of writing academic essays in English and need to learn how to write such things.

The course will provide more instruction than mere correcting of essays. I'll show you how to write essays and then give you more feedback as you practice. I'll tell you where you are going wrong and how to improve. Having corrected thousands of IELTS essays for students over the years, I have a clear understanding of where people go wrong and I know ways to make that writing better.

From the course material, you will learn how to structure an essay into an introduction, the body, and a conclusion and how to write those three parts. You'll learn how to extract the meaning of a question and how to directly address that question. You'll learn where students usually go wrong (logic, wordiness etc) and how to overcome those problems.

The course is email correspondence-based learning with added Skype time.

I'll provide you with material concerning both Task 1 and Task 2 essays, including examples and question lists.

Extensive topic-based Vocabulary Lists provided. Many of the listed words are shown in context.

Lesson 1 is all about introductions. You'll learn how to write a killer introduction and you'll practice writing many of your own, which I'll correct for you.

Lesson 2 is about understanding questions. You'll see how to identify clearly the question that is being asked and you'll learn how to brainstorm a question and come up with an essay plan -- for the body of the essay. I will check all of your essay plans.

Then you will begin to write your own complete essays. I will correct each one immediately after you have written it so that you can use the feedback for the next one and get better and better. Writing is something that you can only really lerarn by doing.

I will correct five Task 1 essays and five Task 2 essays.

I will provide extensive corrections and comments attached to each essay with all the advice and information you need to improve. The corrections, comments and feedback for each essay will make up the main part of the course. See an example of a corrected essay here, here, and here.

Two 30-minute Skype sessions during which we discuss the essays you have written and any problems you are having.

Tuition = $5000

Extra Task 1 essays at $250 each and Extra Task 2 essays at $350 each. Or simply use the Essay Correcting service which is cheaper but won't provide you with as much feedback.