01 · The Writer’s Room
Where the draft lives.
A notebook-cream canvas with Three Waves critique in the margin. Quiet surface, built for long concentration — the way writing is supposed to happen.
Writing, critical thinking and human connection
The AI writing tutor for serious writers.
A place to develop your ideas, revise with purpose, and work with a peer learning facilitator. Build the judgment to explain what you think and why.
The question before the answer
The essay isn’t dead. But the way we teach it might be.
EssayArc’s purpose: thoughtful writing, with human support
What we built
Six disciplined surfaces. One writer.
Places to draft, examine a choice, practice a technique and connect with a reader. See what is available now and what remains under evaluation.
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02 · The Style Bot
A coach who asks better questions.
Inspect sentence types in your own draft. The distribution describes the submitted text; it does not assign a proficiency level or measure learning.
03 · My PLF
Meet around your writing.
With an active PLF pairing, choose a saved Studio version to share. Your PLF can read that version and discuss your revision choices with you.
- Choose the version and access you share
- Keep private working drafts separate
- Discuss questions and next-practice goals
- Revisit the writing behind the conversation
04 · Pony Express
Write a real letter.
The Pony Express: write a letter to someone you know, send it by private link, and it arrives on an 1860s mail schedule. They can write back once. Replies depend on the recipient.
05 · The Mimicry Lab
Notice. Practice. Reflect.
Choose a canonical stylist — then imitate their sentence rhythms, paragraph architecture, and rhetorical moves. The lab shows you where your rhythm diverges from theirs. Reflect on which choices serve your own purpose.
06 · The Masters
Will Durant. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Isabel Wilkerson.
Learn from the greats.
Author-focused study activities invite close reading and practice. They are EssayArc teaching materials; the named authors do not participate in or endorse the app.
Feedback for revision
Reflect on your development.
Use observations to choose a next step with your PLF. Feedback describes the drafts you save; it is not a grade, and on its own it does not establish writing growth.
Practice
Practice a move.
Two quick questions suggest where to start. Then practice a writing move with as much guidance as you need and apply it to your own draft. The check picks a starting point; it is not a placement test.
Your Arc
Your Arc.
See which moves the feedback reads as strengths and which to develop, across the versions you save and ask for feedback on in the Writing Studio, from one paper to the next. A “revision progress” marker shows the first version where a move that read “develop” reads as a strength. These are AI observations to discuss with your PLF, not grades or scores.
Built for the institutions that take writing seriously.
Our shared writing framework
Questions to guide a writing conversation.
Eight areas help writers and PLFs discuss decisions, practice together, and revisit progress. Start with the assignment, adapt to the discipline, and choose a focus for the next conversation.
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InquiryAsk a question worth pursuing.
What are you trying to understand, and what could change your thinking?
Discuss with your PLF
02
EvidenceSelect, examine, and represent support responsibly.
Why is this evidence useful here, and what can it actually support?
Discuss with your PLF
03
ReasoningMake the connection between evidence and a claim explicit.
How does the evidence lead to your claim, and where might that connection be challenged?
Discuss with your PLF
04
OrganizationArrange ideas so readers can follow their relationship.
What does each part help the reader understand, and why does it belong here?
Discuss with your PLF
05
AudienceWrite with a specific purpose, readership, and situation in mind.
What will these readers need to know, question, or do?
Discuss with your PLF
06
VoiceMake intentional choices in language and stance.
How do your language choices express the meaning and position you intend?
Discuss with your PLF
07
RevisionReconsider ideas and make purposeful changes.
What changed in your thinking, why did you revise, and what still needs work?
Discuss with your PLF
08
Independent applicationUse and adapt a writing strategy in unfamiliar work.
What can you carry into a new task, and what must change for that situation?
Discuss with your PLF
The revision method
Try revision in three passes.
One way to organize revision, adapted from the three waves of revision in Write to the Top, is to examine the argument, then the structure, then the sentences. Choose a focus that fits your assignment and discuss it with your PLF.
I.
Argument
Is the claim clear? Are the stakes real? Does the evidence hold? We address the thinking before we address the sentence.
II.
Structure
Paragraph architecture. Transitions that earn their place. Consider what order helps a reader follow your reasoning.
III.
Rhythm
The sentence at the level of the sentence. Verbs, cadence, compression. The last pass — and, for many writers, the first one that feels like writing.
Our evaluation commitments
The evidence we intend to earn.
Learning outcomes have not yet been established.
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Independent writingEvaluate unfamiliar tasks completed without AI.
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Developing judgmentExamine revision choices and the reasoning behind them.
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Human connectionStudy students’ and PLFs’ experience of working together.
04
Transparent evaluationPublish methods and limitations before claiming learning gains.
Writing across disciplines
HistoryLiteraturePhilosophyPublic policySciencesProfessional writing
Where every draft finds its voice.
Bring writing back to your institution.
A 30-minute briefing for chancellors, deans, and department chairs considering a future pilot cohort.