How to Write a 5-Paragraph Essay Step-by-Step: Step-by-Step Study Skills

I purchased this book to tutor a rising 10th grader who was not motivated to raise her writing skills to proficient level. It was a winner! The lessons began at a level that began with the most basic writing skills. The lesson objectives were simply stated with several strategies to work through enabling the student to master and understand the skill through various presentations. The skills were clearly connected and built on each other. The lessons were short enough, even for the most challenged students lacking academic stamina. I had a career in education for 32 years and I do recommend this book. You will love it and your student will appreciate the pacing and expectations of this book.

I got this as summer practice for my 14-year-old autistic son. He is extremely step-by-step. He's an excellent student and very bright but struggles horribly with writing essays. Part of the problem with essay writing is that the assignments are often ambiguous - something that does not work well for most autistic people. This book breaks everything down into concrete steps. I love how the author explains how really any topic can be approached with the same steps. And even with all of this information, the book is brief and easy to read. I have my son go through 3 to 6 pages a day and we're working our way up to him writing a couple of essays before summer's end. He says he feels more prepared. Even if he's still struggles when it comes to actually writing essays again, I know that we will be able to go back to this book and break down the steps for him at any time. Thank you so much!!

We will be using this book for home school English 11. If I can only teach one thing to my kiddos, it will be to write a well organized, clear, impelling essay. That one skill will help them immensely to get through college. They have not picked this skill up in public school yet, and this book, along with rich content reading will solve that.

What makes any self-help or personal development book great? It's when the information is short, simple, specific, and step-by-step! Jay Matthews's book on writing essays is less than 200 pages, it's easy to read and follow, he provides specific examples and let's you try exercises, and he walks you through each lesson one by one. Amazing book on the fundamentals of writing and it should be mandatory reading for students and professionals of any age who want to improve their written communication! If you need this writing aid then save yourself time and error and buy it today.

This writing guide was a game changer for my daughter. We used this her senior year of homeschooling and her writing improved so much! She is a sophomore in college now and still says she’s so glad she did this workbook. She breezes through her papers while others struggle so much. She even helps others with their papers now. Highly recommend How to Write a 5 Paragragh Essay!

Just what I needed to teach essay writing to my homeschooled student.

My son is using this to learn how to write essays. It's a school task he does not enjoy. This is helping him to break it down in bite-size chunks by doing the lessons one by one.

Underwhelmed, but an OK resource. Another tool in the kit for this first year teacher.