After each virtual classroom lesson, you should practise writing an essay of a similar nature on your own. To fully benefit from the exercise, you should have a teacher to give you feedback on your work; what mistakes you have committed,and how you can do better.
Outreach Lesson Personalised Essay Grading and Feedback Serviceis designed to provide this feedback to the student's essay. In this service, our teacher will go through your essay, point out your mistake, analyse your approach, and give you suggestions on how to improve your essay.
Our service goes beyond pen and paper correction of mistakes, which in most tuition centres are merely a correction of wrong words. Our service is a Multimedia Recording (both voice and visuals) of a teacher going through your essay, as if she is sitting beside you, with all her attention focused on your essay.
How it works?
Once you have decided to subscribe to the essay grading service, go to the order page, to pay for the desired service; 1-, 2- or 3- months. You should also purchase the appropriate CDROM lesson title for the instructions on the essays that you are going to write.
Once payment is received, you will receive an email informing you of your userid. The starting date of the 1 month, 2 month or 3 month periods (depending on the package you selected) will begin with the receipt of your first essay, or 2 weeks after we have sent your userid, whichever is earlier.
We do not dictate the time in between your submission. However you should try to adhere to one essay a week. Only with an intensity of once a week, would you see improvement in your writing skill. We will only grade up to 5, 10 or 15 essays for the 1-, 2- and 3-month package.
You should begin your training by viewing the appropriate lesson on the CDROM lesson title. Once you have completed the lesson, you will write your essay, as instructed in the lessons.
After you have finished writing your essay, FAX the essay to us at 31507345, or you can scan the essay into your computer and EMAIL to us at chinese-essay@orlesson.org. Of course if you had typed your essay on the computer, you can just email the softcopy to us. Please ensure your userid, email address and the CDROM title/lesson number are on the top of your paper.
Once received, our teacher will go through your essay and record a critique; pointing out your mistakes, analyse your essay and giving you suggestion on how to improve the essay, in term of more appropriate phrases, structure, etc. Once done, she will upload the recording of her critique to our server and send you an email giving you the download link.
When you received the email, click on the link and save the file to your hard-disk. Once downloaded, double click on the file to view the recording of the critique.
How does Outreach's programme compared to going for tuition at a tuition centre?
Writing is a difficult subject to teach, compared to the teaching of vocabulary and grammar. You need to have a good, experience teacher to fully benefit from the sessions. Good essay writing teachers are not easy to come by. If you do find one, their fees are high. Mdm Li is one of the best essay writing teachers in the profession, and her lessons are only 50 cents per hour! Moreover, with recordings you can review the lessons again and again, or skip parts that you already know.
Gradings in schools and tuition centres are mainly limited to pen and paper corrections. Teachers may read out some better written essays, but it is rare that a teacher will go through the essay of each student individually with the student. So in a way most students do not get real feedback on their own essays. It is just some "good" essays, really, what difference is that compared to reading a book of model essays. At the end of the day, the student is still left to figure out why his/her essay is only worth a 6/10, and how that 6/10 can be transformed into a 8/10 or better.
With Outreach Lesson Essay Grading and Feedback Service, you get feedback on YOUR essay, not someone else's essay. We fix the last missing link for you. |
