To students
Writing in English is difficult. If English is your second language, it’s even more difficult. This book tries to make writing as easy, painless, and fun as possible. I hope you enjoy it!
To teachers
I wrote this book for students whose written work looks like this:
It was a busy day at the store. She was a talk on the phone. She not want buy candy for child. He wasn’t early his date, he buy eggs but his child she play. One cashier is confuse he need a break. The store full and just it have open two lines. I think of students like this as trying to make coq au vin without knowing how to boil an egg.
I wrote Writing in English: Step by Step to teach students to write clear, coherent, grammatically correct paragraphs—a skill that is a prerequisite for writing the longer, more in-depth, and more creative pieces that will be required of them when they take more advanced ESL and English classes.