My daughter has started to write essays in middle school. She is a real slow poke at this and is not completing them in school. Do you have any suggestions for ways she can speed up the process? It will obviously be a big problem in high school.
— Just Too Slow
Of course, a basic way to solve this problem is to practice writing essays at home. Practice does make essay writing faster and easier. First of all, she needs to learn the very basics of essay writing which is to jot down the main idea and three ideas to support it. Help her do this for essays she has already started writing at school and not completed. Then go on to possible future essay topics. This will teach her the foundation of successful early essay writing. It may take some time and a lot of conversations with you to accomplish this.
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