by Scott Dreyer | Sep 22, 2016 | Writing
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...
by Scott Dreyer | Jul 30, 2016 | Writing
This is a new student from Mainland China who has joined our online English classes. Her instructor assigned the topic, “tell us about your daily life.” Note her first draft of the essay, then the copy after her DreyerCoaching.com teacher discussed and...
by Scott Dreyer | May 17, 2016 | Writing
When you want to build or fix something, you pick just the right tool to use. For example, if you want to drive a nail, you use a hammer, not a saw. Likewise, for different kinds of writing goals, you use a different “tool.” In this case, a...
by Scott Dreyer | Feb 15, 2016 | Writing
Over the Chinese New Year holiday, I had the pleasure of providing a private online class to a professional family in Hsinchu, Taiwan: mom, dad, and son. Our goal was to help them improve their spoken and presentation skills, and as a part of that, the father made a...
by Scott Dreyer | Dec 8, 2015 | Writing
In a recent conversation with three of my online writing students in Hsinchu, Taiwan, I was telling them about the funny writing rules that are designed to teach a writing rule, but in a humorous way. They asked to see the list, and I found two. Here are two humorous...
by Scott Dreyer | Nov 9, 2015 | Writing
This comes from Seth Godin’s popular business and marketing blog: The simple way to get better at business writing Don’t do business writing. Have you ever met someone in industry who talks like he writes? You visit a store, and the person says,...
