The Writing Skills Gap
This country is locked in a learning quagmire caused by an educational misalignment, which has resulted in many students entering higher education wit...
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Getting Started with College Preparation
On Day 9 of the Twelve Days of Christmas Giving, IEW is giving you two weeks of the University-Ready Writing video course. Be sure you are registered for the event to receive the... read more
Preparing for College and Career
In the 1970s Dr. James B. Webster began each of his university history classes with lessons from his program Blended Structure and Style in Composition because his students could not write well enough... read more
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IEW Tools for the Journey: Arts of Language Podcast
As part of IEW’s continued commitment to providing parents and teachers with help for the journey of training students to be confident and competent communicators and thinkers, we are presenting a series of... read more
Using Structure and Style across the Curriculum
“I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I write and I understand.” According to this Chinese proverb, writing about something leads to understanding it. While writing instruction is commonly considered... read more
How to Progress: Structure and Style for Students
Structure and Style® for Students (SSS) video-based courses build on each other. Although many begin at Level A, older students who have used other curricula may begin at Year 1 of Level B... read more
Getting Started with College Preparation
On Day 9 of the Twelve Days of Christmas Giving, IEW is giving you two weeks of the University-Ready Writing video... read more
Preparing for College and Career
In the 1970s Dr. James B. Webster began each of his university history classes with lessons from his program Blended Structure... read more
IEW Tools for the Journey: Arts of Language Podcast
As part of IEW’s continued commitment to providing parents and teachers with help for the journey of training students to be... read more
Using Structure and Style across the Curriculum
“I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I write and I understand.” According to this Chinese proverb, writing... read more
How to Progress: Structure and Style for Students
Structure and Style® for Students (SSS) video-based courses build on each other. Although many begin at Level A, older students who... read more
In this episode Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker discuss the importance of learning the basic essay model even when many say it is outdated or formulaic. Learn how to take the basic essay model and expand it to a super-essay. Andrew even discusses the name of the longest essay model that uses one of his favorite words.
Referenced Materials
- “De-Confusing Essays” article by Andrew Pudewa
- Unit 8: Easy Essays and Beyond webinar
- University-Ready Writing
- University-Ready Writing free lessons
- Teaching Writing: Structure and Style
- Seminar Workbook
- Magnum Opus Magazine Unit 8 samples
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 418
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
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Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker discuss how both dads and grads can benefit from University-Ready Writing. Dads who are in the business world will benefit from grads who complete the course and become better writers. Listen to find out the top three things that make this course worth the investment for graduates and those working in the business world.
Referenced Materials
- University-Ready Writing
- Free University-Ready Writing lessons
- IEW Accredited Instructors
- Episode 376: A Necessary Conversation about Artificial Intelligence
- Portable Walls™ for Academic Writing
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 429
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In this podcast, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker discuss how IEW teaches thinking using some aspects of the classical model and the Canons of Rhetoric. They specifically address the first canon, invention, and how students learn division of subjects, one of the key skills in inventive writing. Listen to this episode to learn how to help your students come up with content and present it in a winsome and well-ordered way.
Referenced Materials
- University-Ready Writing
- “Is IEW ‘Classical’?”
- “Filling the Blank Page with Unit 7”
- University-Ready Writing free lessons
- Introduction to Public Speaking
- Episode 236: The Five Canons of Rhetoric, Part 1
- Video Interview with Dr. Chesley reviewing University-Ready Writing
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 464
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com
In this episode, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker continue to discuss how to prepare students for college and life beyond college. Julie describes ways to improve productivity and retain more of what students are learning. Listen to find out about work islands and Julie’s Dr Pepper email checker.
GO TO PART 1
Referenced Materials
- The One-Life Solution by Dr. Henry Cloud
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- Memory Mentor™ app
- University-Ready Writing
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 438
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com
In this episode, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker interview Hannah Maruyama to learn about her experience with higher education and job training, understand why she calls college “buying a degree,” and discover how parents can assist their students with planning well for their future. If you have a high school or college student, this episode is for you!
Referenced Materials
- Degree Free
- Hannah Maruyama
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook
- Structure and Style for Students: Year 2 Level B
- University-Ready Writing
- Mike Rowe
- Brazilian Jiu Jitsu study
- The Degree Free Way by Ryan and Hannah Maruyama
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 448
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com
Motivated by a desire to set teachers up for success, Denise Kelley, IEW Manager of Product Development, works tirelessly to ensure all IEW products and services are aligned with the company’s cornerstone product, Teaching Writing: Structure and Style. Join Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker as they discuss with Denise how her over two decades of experience at IEW have shaped her philosophy of product development.
Referenced Materials
- Denise Kelley
- Teaching Writing: Structure and Style
- Structure and Style for Students (SSS)
- Theme-Based Writing Lessons
- Fix It! Grammar
- Introduction to Public Speaking
- University-Ready Writing
- IEW Online Classes
- How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstok
- Episode 398: Think Like Shakespeare, Part 1
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 403
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com
Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker give a quick overview of how to start with IEW before diving into the question of how long students should use IEW courses. Students sometimes complain that they are doing the same thing over and over again. Learn why Andrew recommends the repetition of the Structure and Style syllabus over multiple years and whether students will ever graduate from the checklist.
Referenced Materials
- How to Get Started with IEW
- IEW Homeschool Magalog
- IEW Pathway
- Teaching Writing: Structure and Style
- Structure and Style for Students
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- “Celebrate the Checklist”
- Introduction to Public Speaking
- Linguistic Development through Poetry Memorization
- University-Ready Writing
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 417
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com
It’s time for another Live Ask Andrew Anything episode! Join Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker as they answer questions from listeners. They were joined by Ashley from Joyful Noise Learning, who asked how to answer a child who asks, “Why do I have to learn writing when I am not going to be a writer when I grow up?” Andrew also shares what he is reading to his grandchildren as well as a few other book recommendations.
Referenced Materials
- Joyful Noise Learning
- However Imperfectly by Andrew Pudewa
- Penrod by Booth Tarkington
- Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
- Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
- How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstok
- Structure and Style® for Students: Year 1 Level C
- Dual Enrollment with Christian Halls International
- University-Ready Writing
- Introduction to Public Speaking
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 420
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com
In the first episode of a two-part series, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker share strategies for the skills needed to succeed in college and in life after college. Julie outlines a plan and provides resources for students to prepare for their future.
GO TO PART 2
Referenced Materials
- “Most Colleges Enroll Many Students Who Aren’t Prepared for Higher Education”
- University-Ready Writing
- “Do Two Parents Matter More Than Ever?”
- “Do High School Courses Prepare Kids for College?”
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey
- Hero on a Mission by Donald Miller
- Financial Peace University by Dave Ramsey
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 437
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com
What skills do students need to succeed in collegiate writing? Listen to Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker discuss this brand new video course that will prepare your high school and college students for college writing. Hear why Andrew would have called this “How to spy on your professor and figure out his or her writing style and imitate it so you can get a better grade on every paper you turn in”!
Referenced Materials
- University-Ready Writing
- Episode 354: Paper and Pen — What the Research Says
- TRIAC
- Episode 236: The Five Canons of Rhetoric
- APA Style
- MLA Style
- Episode 347: A Citation Pathway
- “Teaching Documentation with Confidence”
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 407
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com
On November 13, 2023, Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker celebrated the 400th episode of the Arts of Language podcast by hosting a live event with nearly 400 guests listening. Andrew answered questions from the live audience on topics such as AI, college preparation, and the long-lasting legacy of IEW. He even told a joke. Listen to this extended podcast and hear about new products that IEW will release soon.
Referenced Materials
- Structure and Style for Students
- Portable Walls Grammar on the Go
- Portable Walls for Structure and Style Students
- Introduction to Public Speaking
- University-Ready Writing
- However Imperfectly
- Premium Membership
- Episode 364: Health and Wellness with Katie Wells
- Cultivating Language Arts — Preschool through High School audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
- Episode 382: Announcing IEW's Partnership with Hillsdale College
- Adventures in Writing
- Discoveries in Writing
- How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstock
- Episode 398: Think Like Shakespeare, Part 1
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com
In this Live Ask Andrew Anything episode, Julie Walker asks Andrew Pudewa questions submitted by listeners, including how to follow the topic-clincher rule, what to do when a student uses a dress-up incorrectly, how to help visual learners with communication skills, and how to encourage perseverance and excellence. The episode ends with Andrew reading an assignment from one of his current students who claims to hate writing. Be sure to listen all the way to the end!
Referenced Materials
- “Understanding Topic-Clincher Sentences with Unit 4”
- Strengthening Structure Models for IEW Structural Units
- Review of SSS-1A
- “Why Hire an Editor?”
- IEW’s Winter Retreat 2025: A Virtual Writing Workshop for Teachers
- University-Ready Writing
- From Copywork to Composition: Teaching Writing through Imitation audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
- “Process versus Product”
- Adventures in Writing
- Theme-Based Writing Lessons free lessons
- Structure and Style for Students: Year 1 Level A
- Structure and Style for Students free lessons
- Nurturing Competent Communicators audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
- Link to Episode 460 video
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 460
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com
Thirty years ago, Andrew Pudewa began offering writing seminars to homeschool parents. In this episode, Julie Walker asks Andrew to reflect on those thirty years, share some of the highlights of those years, and discuss how students and adults are using the Structure and Style® method in the classroom as well as in the real world. He ends with why it is so important for people to learn how to write and speak and communicate in a world that so desperately needs leaders with those skills.
Referenced Materials
- What Are We Really Doing Here? by Andrew Pudewa
- Teaching Writing: Structure and Style®
- Seminar Workbook
- Structure and Style for Students
- Structure and Style for Students: Year 3 Level B
- University-Ready Writing
- Transcript for Podcast Episode 451
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com
It’s time for another Live Ask Andrew Anything episode! Join Andrew Pudewa and Julie Walker as they answer questions from listeners. They were joined by Nicki Truesdell, who asked “How much grammar and writing do you think is necessary throughout the years of K-12?” Andrew and Julie also answer questions about Structure and Style® for Students, The Phonetic Zoo, instructor accreditation, and many others. This episode covers all things IEW!
Referenced Materials
- Nicki Truesdell
- Structure and Style® for Students
- Fix It!™ Grammar
- U.S. History-Based Writing Lessons
- Episode 398: Think like Shakespeare, Part 1
- How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstok
- Anyone Can Homeschool by Nicki Truesdell
- University-Ready Writing
- Free Fix It! Grammar lessons
- Structure and Style for Students: Year 1 Level B
- Find an Instructor
- Primary Arts of Language
- The Phonetic Zoo
- Spelling and the Brain audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
- All About Spelling
- From Composition to Copywork audio talk by Andrew Pudewa
- Apply for Accreditation
- Introduction to Public Speaking
- IEW Speech Contest
- Transcript of Podcast Episode 430
If you have questions for Andrew, send them to podcast@IEW.com
Perhaps your question will be answered at the next Ask Andrew Anything (AAA).
If you have questions about IEW products or classes, contact customer service at 800.856.5815 or info@IEW.com
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