Short Tips for Writing Short Essays

This little booklet is a great companion to every writer young or old. It is not a full curriculum, nor comprehensive. It could be considered the pep talk in booklet form that every teacher should repeat to writers before an assignment every year. A little booklet to read and re-read.

Brian Daigle wrote it for his own students and kept it short on purpose: “This whole primer should be swallowed in just a few short hours spread over a few weeks of school.” It frames all writing around one goal, saying true things beautifully, then gives short sections on grammar, eloquence and content, each ending with what to avoid; ten principles of good writing; and five appendices, from a pronoun chart and the Latin abbreviations to a model argumentative essay and an essay on what a writing curriculum should be.