English Doesn't Work the Way You Think It Does
Channel: theExactWord
Date: 2014-05-21

It's Natural:
Why do we struggle to communicate, especially to write? The irony lies in our already having everything we need --  but subconsciously. Charles Darwin said that every human, having the instincts to speak, eat, and drink, must learn to write, bake, and brew. How, though, do we learn to write and to think well? 

Everything Begins with Thought:
When we grope with escaping thoughts, or our wording doesn't match our thinking, we doubt ourselves. With theExact Word's tools, thoughts escape less and less. Why? You gain conscious choices. You discover your dormant language genius.

Learning to Write:
 Doubts about how to write begin to evaporate with the discovery that English really works by a simple set of "either/or" choices. Thought funnels through these choices into sentences. No choice. Two sets of two patterns used in one of two ways: that's English.

Confidence:
To learn to write, you have to feel you can succeed. You have to engage. You have to believe you can uncover your dormant genius. For teaching writing, belief has to come first, sometimes simply while learning pattern and trigger meaning. Then follows how to use each pattern, and where. Choice and confidence come with understanding. And the true simplicity of how English really works.

Lifetime Learning:
A new term, "growth mindsets," defines successful people having a kind of grit, a problem-solving readiness. In other words, we have to think our ways through life. When we don't feel secure with the instinct for language, we have a shaky base. But confident writing leads to much more and lasts for life.

Film Credits:
Co-Directors and Co-Producers
John McCormick, IOTSE and Barbara K. Stuckey, AGMA, SAG-AFTRA

Camera and Editing:
Daniel Webster

Voice-Over Script:
Margeaux Martine, SAG-AFTRA

See www.exactword.com/outcomes

"Paradigm Pathway":
A "Paradigm Pathway" learning curve has emerged from thousands of workshop participants kindergarten through retirement. You track where you are -- insights, questions, strategies, your Ah ha! moments. New knowledge can temporarily slip away. With the Pathway, you remain safely moving forward.

Magic and Fun:
You know everything you need to know if you speak English. No matter how skillful or struggling you may now feel, you shift your focus from words to strings of thought. You begin to think in ways you haven't thought before.  You gain certainty about how English really works, its logic, and creative options, whether your first or second language. For new English speakers, intuitive English becomes logical.

Outcomes:
Often in seven months the next level for students, whether for understanding grammar, for learning English as a second language, for new creative endeavors, for Ah Ha! moments, or nuanced writing for life. For teachers, or adults in professional workplaces, forty hours to see English with a new model. Once you see it, you can't not see it. 

Release your dormant genius.
Watch the meaning between the lines emerge.
Think critically at the moment thought turns to sentence.
Discover why anyone can learn to write well.