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Book Title: Your Essay Builder: Clear Steps to Plan and Structure Your Essay

Subtitle: Learner Success Toolkit Guide

by Roisin Kelly

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Book Description: Your Essay Builder: Learner Success Toolkit Guide was designed with learning differences in mind. It begins with Your Essay Builder, an interactive tool that helps you plan and structure your essay step by step. The book provides a clear starting point to reduce stress, prevent overwhelm, and support different learning preferences through examples, worksheets, quick guides, and PowerPoint videos with voiceover. This book is a living document. Content may be added, updated and amended.

Licence:
Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial

Contents

Book Information

Book Description

Your Essay Builder: Learner Success Toolkit Guide begins with an interactive activity called Your Essay Builder. This tool helps you plan your essay step by step. It is designed to make the blank page less overwhelming and to give you a simple structure to work from.

This book was designed with learning differences in mind. It is also supportive for anyone who feels anxious about essay writing or easily overwhelmed when starting. It recognises that learners have different preferences, so it offers a mix of examples, short activities, worksheets, quick guides, and PowerPoint videos with voiceover.

This is not an academic writing book. It does not cover grammar, advanced writing skills, referencing, or research. Instead, it provides a starting point that reduces stress, supports clarity, and helps you build confidence in organising your ideas. The following chapters add more detail to the steps in Your Essay Builder. They explore areas such as understanding essay questions, planning word counts, writing introductions, building paragraphs, writing conclusions, and using sentence starters and transitions. The book ends with a reflection section and a collection of resources for continued support.

Author

Roisin Kelly

Licence

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Your Essay Builder: Clear Steps to Plan and Structure Your Essay Copyright © 2026 by Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest and Roisin Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Subject

Revision and study guide

Metadata

Title
Your Essay Builder: Clear Steps to Plan and Structure Your Essay
Author
Roisin Kelly
Licence

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Your Essay Builder: Clear Steps to Plan and Structure Your Essay Copyright © 2026 by Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest and Roisin Kelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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Primary Subject
Revision and study guide
Additional Subject(s)
Writing and editing guides, Higher education, tertiary education, For undergraduate education and equivalents
Institution
Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest
Publisher
Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest
Publisher City
Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland
Publication Date
January 16, 2026