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48, 115, 161 ideas refined223, 705 dedicated writers425, 563 projects in progress48, 115, 161 ideas refined223, 705 dedicated writers425, 563 projects in progress48, 115, 161 ideas refined223, 705 dedicated writers425, 563 projects in progress48, 115, 161 ideas refinedEssay provides a structured writing environment, designed to help writers of all levels to find a topic of interest, organize their thoughts, improve their ideas, and communicate more effectively.
Our AI Topic Tool helps you discover writing topics that matter. Use Notes to capture insights and Outline to structure your ideas. Essay connects every step of the writing process, making it easy to build on your research, link notes to your outline, and shape everything into a polished draft.
Our AI Topic Tool helps you discover writing topics that matter. Use Notes to capture insights and Outline to structure your ideas. Essay connects every step of the writing process, making it easy to build on your research, link notes to your outline, and shape everything into a polished draft.
Essay uses the structured writing method developed by author, professor & clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan B. Peterson.
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Create a skeleton and structure for your essay.
A distraction-free writing environment.
Play and experiment with word choice & sentence structure.
Evaluate every element of your work to make sure your argument flows well.
Use Notes to quickly jot down ideas, collect research, and organize your thoughts.
Share your work with friends, teachers, or peers to get meaningful feedback.
Save for later allows you to remove an idea from your document, and save it in a note for later.
The Topic Tool helps you find the questions you want answered, and the direction that you want to explore.
Create a skeleton and structure for your essay.
Create a skeleton and structure for your essay. Rearrange sections and paragraphs with ease. Connect your notes and research to your outline. A well structured outline help you to stay focused and organized while you write.
A distraction-free writing environment.
A distraction-free writing environment where the implicit goal is to write without editing and without being overly self-critical. You want to get your ideas on paper so you can see what you're working with. Let your outline guide you, use your notes to help generate ideas, and work towards a rough first draft.
Play and experiment with word choice & sentence structure.
Rewrite your sentences. Play and experiment with word choice & sentence structure. Try to improve each one. Create variations without fear of losing any good ideas. Evaluate each version within the context of your paragraph.
Evaluate every element of your work to make sure your argument flows well.
Organize your sentences into proper sequence within each paragraph. Rearrange your paragraphs & sections into the optimal order. Evaluate every element of your work to make sure your arguments flow well.
Use Notes to quickly jot down ideas, collect research, and organize your thoughts.
Use Notes to quickly jot down your ideas, and collect & organize research. Link notes to an essay to conveniently access your research while you write. Add notes to your outline or to specific sentences to help organize your thoughts and research. Takes notes on the go with Essay mobile.
Share your work with friends, teachers, or peers to get meaningful feedback.
Share your work with friends, teachers, or peers to get meaningful feedback. Essay's feedback categories help reviewers easily focus in on the elements that matter, so you get clear and specific insights on how to improve your writing. Say goodbye to vague critiques!
Save for later allows you to remove an idea from your document, and save it in a note for later.
If an idea doesn’t fit, you should remove it, no matter how fond of it you are! Save for later allows you to remove an idea from your document, and save it in a note for later. Access your saved ideas from anywhere, and come back to those darlings when you need them.
The Topic Tool helps you find the questions you want answered, and the direction that you want to explore.
If you're going to write and think about something, why not write about something that matters? The Topic Tool helps you find the questions you want answered, and the topics you want to explore. Get inspired to write with Essay.
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Designed to strengthen your writing and communication skills.
Provides a clear philosophy and process to follow.
Encourages play, experimentation, creativity and critical thinking.
Offers specialized tools that build strong editing habits while simplifying the process of refining your writing.
Retains sentence level edit history, ensuring you never lose a good idea.
Effective feedback tools so writers receive the insights they need to improve their writing.
Conventional word processor that supports collaborative work.
No specific tools to help you edit, organize, or develop your ideas
Difficult to manage feedback due to limited sorting and filtering options for comments
Focused on formatting rather than idea generation and refinement.
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Specialist writing platform focused on supporting large writing projects.
Complex interface with a steep learning curve
May require longer setup due to numerous customization options
Particularly effective for experienced writers working on large projects
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Popular autocorrect extension, focused on correcting grammar and phrasing.
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Designed to strengthen your writing and communication skills.
Provides a clear philosophy and process to follow.
Encourages play, experimentation, creativity and critical thinking.
Offers specialized tools that build strong editing habits while simplifying the process of refining your writing.
Retains sentence level edit history, ensuring you never lose a good idea.
Effective feedback tools so writers receive the insights they need to improve their writing.
Designed to strengthen your writing and communication skills.
Provides a clear philosophy and process to follow.
Encourages play, experimentation, creativity and critical thinking.
Offers specialized tools that build strong editing habits while simplifying the process of refining your writing.
Retains sentence level edit history, ensuring you never lose a good idea.
Effective feedback tools so writers receive the insights they need to improve their writing.
Conventional word processor that supports collaborative work.
No specific tools to help you edit, organize, or develop your ideas
Difficult to manage feedback due to limited sorting and filtering options for comments
Focused on formatting rather than idea generation and refinement.
Legacy writing platform with slow-paced feature rollout, less responsive to user feedback
Perfect for those who have an existing process and don't need structure or guidance while writing.
Specialist writing platform focused on supporting large writing projects.
Complex interface with a steep learning curve
May require longer setup due to numerous customization options
Particularly effective for experienced writers working on large projects
Ideal for writing projects that don’t require peer review or structured editing
Complicated multi-device syncing
Popular autocorrect extension, focused on correcting grammar and phrasing.
Focused on quickly improving and shaping the final product, but not on the process.
Suggests edit that are not consistent with your voice or writing style
Does not help you avoid mistakes in the future, and creates dependence on the tool
Overemphasizes certain rules, making writing feel robotic.
Struggles with nuanced or creative writing.
While teaching at Harvard and the University of Toronto, Dr Jordan B Peterson found that even his best students were struggling with writing.
He created a writing guide that reinforced the importance of engaging meaningfully with a topic that matters. The guide detailed a specific process for structuring your ideas and communicating them effectively.
Upon sharing this guide with his students they produced the best essay that they had ever written. It has continued to help writers develop their ideas for over 25 years and laid the foundation for our work at Essay.
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