Essay Express: Strategies for Successful Essay Writing

Essay Express is an interactive computer program that teaches paragraph development and essay writing using a novel approach. Based on the continuing story of a comical rock group called the Rotten Green Peppers (from Brain Cogs fame), Essay Express leads students into the mysteries of putting sentences together in meaningful ways to end up with an awesome essay. Using “drag and drop” technology, color palettes, short quizzes, and demonstrations of how to create strong essays, students become familiar with different ways to organize their thoughts. An accompanying teacher manual offers a variety of engaging activities for the classroom .