by Ersun Warncke | Apr 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Write better without touching a keyboard!I’ve started to play around with video and wanted to share the first two installments of Write to Success’s Hands-free Writing Hacks series.Most of what makes for good writing happens away from a desk. Immersing oneself in the...
by Ersun Warncke | Mar 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
Unpacking a potential classroom saboteur Over the past few years I’ve read a lot neurodiversity, learning differences, etc., which introduced me to pathological demand avoidance (the less fun PDA).Descriptions of associated traits rang a bell. I’ve certainly had...
by Ersun Warncke | Mar 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Writing in an uncertain worldLast week, one of the students I worked with as an essay application coach was admitted to their first-choice school, Choate Rosemary Hall. Choate is highly selective even among highly selective secondary schools, taking between 11-16% of...
by Ersun Warncke | Mar 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
Read your way to better writingOne thing I cannot emphasize enough, as a writing teacher, is the importance of reading, reading, reading. Reading increases knowledge, builds emotional intelligence, creates connections, percolates language in the brain. Anyone who...
by Ersun Warncke | Mar 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Tips from author Katherine CottleWelcome to another dispatch from ‘Between the Lines’ – interviews with teachers, writers and writing teachers on specific aspects of their craft.In this week’s interview, author and Goucher College writing professor Katherine Cottle...
by Ersun Warncke | Feb 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
Preparing students to conquer college writing Essay AcceleratorWrite to Success is hard at work on the Essay Accelerator — a course that prepares learners to conquer college and beyond. Full disclosure: building an online course, website, etc. is a technological...
