Essay Architect Essay Writing System

by Kristen Bowers

The Essay Architect Writing System by Secondary Solutions is an all-inclusive, step-by-step method you can use to walk your students through the often confusing process of essay writing.
The Essay Architect Writing System includes 104 pages of reproducible worksheets, examples, teaching guides, graphic organizers, terminology, models, rubrics, quizzes, and more.
Designed for use in grades 7-12, Essay Architect will help you teach everything your students need to know about writing a great essay, from the essential structure and vocabulary, to pre-writing, to polishing the essay in its final stages. Students have the opportunity to learn and practice every step of the process before actually writing an essay, and learn how to evaluate and assess other essays to recognize high-quality, well-written essays, as well as poorly-written, weak writing. Best of all, we have not overlooked the often difficult to teach areas of Literary Analysis/Response to Literature Essays, Writing Research Papers, and Finding and Incorporating Quotations.
This Essay Architect Writing System includes activities and worksheets
essay terminology
types of essays
essay organization
reading an essay prompt
writing effective titles
writing grabbers
writing topic sentences
writing better thesis statements
piecing the essay together
essay evaluation activities
sample essays for evaluation
pre-writing graphic organizers
a list of words to avoid
a list of commonly misspelled words
activities for adding transitions
activities for finding, evaluating and using sources for research papers
activities for finding and integrating quotes in response to literature essay
PLUS Over 100 writing prompts! **Please note that the copyright on this edition of Essay Architect is 2006, published before the implementation of the 7th Edition of MLA Style Handbook, released in 2009

104 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published June 30, 2006

About the author

Kristen Bowers is a mom, entrepreneur, transformational trainer, author, coach, and speaker who has helped people transform their lives with her straight-forward approach, relatable and authentic connection, and refreshingly frank candor. Based on her own transformation, revealing her years of depression, a divorce, and business failure, Bust Your Asphalt empowers and guides readers to break through personal blocks in order to live authentically and powerfully.
She is also the founder and President of educational publishing company Simply Novel and has also written and published over 20 teaching guides and reference books, including two essay writing guides: Essay Apprentice and Essay Architect, and her SmartFlip ELA Common Core Resource Guides for grades 3-12, helping ELA teachers break-down and tackle the complexities of the Common Core.
Kristen is passionately dedicated to supporting people in living their best lives, empowering people to be their authentic selves, and supporting people in being connected, passionate, and living their greatest life.