What is IEW's Excellence in Writing?

Excellence in Writing successfully equips students with tools to significantly improve their writing skills. 

Its methods not only build written and oral communication skills, but also improve critical thinking. 

Excellence in Writing methods can also be used across the curriculum to reinforce content area. Students learn to write as they write to learn. With diligent and consistent effort there is a wonderful transformation from immature or even reluctant writers to competent, confident communicators. It is possible to teach students with very high writing aptitude alongside those with undeveloped writing aptitude, and the system works magnificently at both ends of that aptitude spectrum. 

Lessons in our class are carefully planned to be steps toward more sophisticated writing. 

Lessons build from one-paragraph summaries to three paragraph essays and on to a five-paragraph essay with introduction, conclusion, and bibliography. After mastering the five-paragraph essay the next step is a “super essay.” A "super essay" consists of three five-paragraph essays tied together with super introduction and super conclusion paragraphs.