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Description Paper & How-To Essay: Student Writing
As part of our online writing classes, my students have been writing on different kinds of tasks. Recently they wrote a Description paper, where they were to describe a person, place, or thing, as well as a How-To paper, where they give cookbook-like...

Student Writing: A Definition Paper
In a recent online writing class, my students have been studying about definition papers and how to write one. In this writing task, one seeks to define a word, idea, or person. Below are two samples my students wrote. Take a look! Life: Does its...

Think About vs. Think Of
Tonight in one of my writing classes, a student in Shenzhen, China had written an essay: How to Learn Chinese. Curious, I asked her: "Why did you choose this topic?" Her answer: "It's the first thing I could think about." Her answer sounded a bit...

English Idioms (Sayings)
What are idioms? At DreyerCoaching.com, we do not give our students long lists of vocabulary words and grammar points to memorize; there are more than enough "cram schools" doing that already. Instead, we want to teach "real English," the way English speakers,...
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