the Essay Engineering method is taught in Private Tutoring and Group Course settings.

The three major Orientations are: Test Prep for Verbal Reasoning – Foundational Literacy – Western humanistic thought and Essay composition

for SAT Test Prep –  students learn innovative, rigorous fundamentals of verbal reasoning.

– from academic research in cognitive development, developed in collaboration with neuroscience researcher Thomas Villemonteix (Paris VIII).

for Foundational Literacy, in primary and middle school –  in the Textual Detective method, students learn to collect clues and evidence.

– students work with paragraph-level detail and chapter-level synthesis.

in studying Western humanistic thought – students grasp complex, intricate ideas, through a rigorous historical study methodology.

– immersion in great works of the Western Canon and the tradition of liberal arts excellence.

in Essay Composition, at high-school and college level – students learn evidence-based thinking, generating conceptual frameworks and analysis of empirical reality.

Additional Orientations:

“Mental Strength-Training”: students develop “AI-independent” higher reasoning skills

The Essay Engineering Textbook: provides a standardized curriculum.

The Essay Engineering Chatbot: provides guided, AI-assisted instruction.

Students find the intellectual exploration of Essay Engineering to be a creative, joyful experience.

The surprise of unexpected enjoyment: studying history and literature with Essay Engineering is a completely new experience.

What are students saying about studying English literature with Essay Engineering?

“Before I learned how to read novels using Essay Engineering methods, I didn’t understand anything about literature. Now I realize this is the only way to study English literature.” (Linda, 19, New York City)

“When I look at the essays that my friends have written, I can see the obvious mistakes they make, and how they just don’t get the essential meaning of what happens in the chapter they are writing about, there’s some really important meaning that they just never saw. But for me, it’s obvious what’s going on in a chapter, because Essay Engineering teaches me how to make sense of it all, and I can write a really good essay that my teacher likes.” (Eric, 16, New York City)

But how can you study literature like it’s a lifeless, technical matter? What about the “aesthetic experience”? How can there be any experience of beauty with all this rigor and systematicity?

The rigor and systematicity of the Essay Engineering methodology is not at all contrary to the aesthetic experience of the literary work and its emotional richness – quite the contrary, the rigorous methodology’s ultimate purpose is to most clearly see the meaning of sentences, in order to most fully experience the literary work as an aesthetic artifact.

Where did Essay Engineering come from?

The inventor of Essay Engineering combined the results-oriented pragmatism of the private sector with the intellectual sophistication of academia to develop this novel methodology and curriculum. After taking his undergraduate degree at Harvard College, he worked in investment banking in New York. He subsequently undertook graduate studies and doctoral research at Stanford University, before returning to the private sector to work in private tutoring and geopolitics research, while continuing humanities research in various subfields of history.

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