Simply put, The Essay Flowchart is “an essay in a flowchart” – a compact but comprehensive, feature-rich 20 page textbook.
It is compact because The Essay Flowchart is a standalone guide that focuses on what really matters when learning to write well. It puts all relevant information in one place and beautifully presents it for maximum understanding.
It is comprehensive because The Essay Flowchart takes the learner on a writing journey using a flowchart: from thoughts, ideas, words, sentences, paragraphs to an essay. The focus is on skills that can be applied to create a compelling piece of writing quickly and effectively.
The Essay Flowchart achieves the above goals by using educational and behavioral science theories to break the task of writing into small steps that build upon one another.
Small steps or pockets of information are always easier to understand and master, making the learning process both fast and meaningful.
The Essay Flowchart groups the small steps into four stages of writing (with notes, examples and exercises) as follows:
- Proposal – understanding the task
- Planning – creating an outline
- Prominence – making it memorable
- Presentation – bringing everything together
Overall, The Essay Flowchart forces the learner to get organized in their ideas and skills. The more they get organised, the better they become as thinkers and writers who can analyze, structure and present information. Writing brillantly, after all, is a systematic process and affects all parts of one’s education.
I built The Essay Flowchart on a simple premise: that you don’t ‘make’ things happen; you ‘let’ things happen. With good writing this is easy: you go from thoughts to ideas to words to sentences to paragraphs systematically, sequentially, and in small steps, that all add up in the end. It is learning core thinking, planning and composing skills effortlessly.
Mukesh Prasad, Project Creator
Extract taken from the conference proceedings – see the Success tile.