Essay Punch helps students already familiar with writing a paragraph begin to write a short essay. Steps to finished essays include prewriting, outlining, organizing, editing, rewriting, and publishing. Students' completed essays can be transferred to their own disks or to a word processing program.
Teachers can monitor their students' progress in the record management system.
The program can be used as well by advanced intermediate ESL and adult students. The program contains 9 writing topics and 1,080 help prompts to guide students through each step in the writing process. Contextual help and feedback will engage students of all ages. Reward animations and sounds do not contain juvenile graphics. Network versions keep records for 1000 users.