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Juice Up Your Verbs
Verbs propel your sentences. Strong ones drive you along. Weak ones? You run out of gas. Recently in one of our online writing classes, we discussed verbs and ways to power them up. In short, try to avoid "be" verbs. Those are verbs like: am, is, was, were, are,...
My Summer Vacation
This is a common topic for back-to-school writing in September: "My Summer Vacation." This is from Tim, a student in Hsinchu, Taiwan, who went to Singapore with his family. His essay is a part of a larger paper on the whole week there, but here is just focuses on one...
Ask Scott Dreyer: How is your medical cost-sharing community working out?
This question came from a former student in Roanoke, VA, via Facebook: Q. Hi Mr. Dreyer! Not sure if you remember me, but I was in your 9th grade Center for Humanities class at Patrick Henry High School. Anyway, last night my husband and I were looking into his...
The Presidential Race comes to my hometown
Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that the USA is having a high-stakes race for president now, with the election to be held on Nov. 8, 2016. Not only is this election important for the future direction of the US, but it is, directly and indirectly, to...
Lake Day 2016!
On September 3, 2016, we enjoyed our third annual "Lake Fun Day" at beautiful Smith Mountain Lake, the largest lake in the US state of Virginia. Each of the three times we have had our "fun day," we have been blessed with GREAT weather. We have several goals for...
Student Writing: Before & After (Summer Program at University of Maryland)
A new online student of DreyerCoaching.com, living in China, recently wrote this about her summer program last year. Her teacher and I are impressed that she is so ambitious and wrote so much. Note how she uses some high-level vocabulary and pushes herself to describe...
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