Essays don’t have to be quite so overwhelming, long, and arduous.
The 2-step 'Topic and Focus' System is a proven, simple and super-effective way to get your teen on the right track in their response and ensure they ‘actually answer the question’. ;)
In this episode I share a real life essay question and how to use the Topic and Focus system to help your teen avoid the ‘Topic Traps’ and answer the precise Focus of the question - even if you have no clue about the subject yourself!
YOU WILL LEARN:
The most common pitfalls affecting students’ essays.
How to help your teen avoid major re-writes, waffling, and low-level responses (all of which can happen, even when the info they include is factually correct and there’s lots of it!).
The trick to checking the focus of the essay and making it super-clear to answer.
How this will help your teen make strategic decisions on what points to include or evidence to select for their essay.
FEATURED ON THE SHOW
- Trick to Address the Key Focus of an Essay: Coaching Call video excerpt
- 10WGT: The 10 Week Grade Transformation Program
- Next Level Coaching: Open to graduates of the 10WGT only.
- Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
- Real parent feedback: “Lauren has been using ... the essay writing skills on topic and focus to finish her latest English Literature essay last night.
She had received feedback on her draft that it had gone a bit astray, so last night she went back a step to review the topic and focus and reworked it a little. Well today she got her grade: an A!!!!”
06/29/22 • 15 min
Parents of Hardworking Teens - Essays That Actually 'Answer the Question'
Transcript
You’re listening to The Parents of Hardworking Teens Podcast, episode number 4 - and today we’re deep-diving into ESSAYS and the ONE system that solves all those common issues like going way over the word count and then having to spend almost as long cutting half of it out again, handing in 3 solid pages of writing, but still getting told they need more detail or handing in a draft, but then having to pretty much re-start and re-do the whole thing when they’re told they’ve gone down th
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