Are you lost in

The Lost Tools of Writing

Are your student's LTW essays less elegant than previous writing?

Confused by the new-to-you writing process?

Not sure how each LTW essay builds on the previous one?

Looking for Practical Processes for Writing Professional Prose?

Did you like my alliteration?

My own teens resist writing despite having a parent-teacher who is an award-winning author and writing coach. Yet once I showed them how to use the Lost Tools of Writing 1 curriculum, they wrote elegant essays.

Was my assonance adequate?

At first, I resisted switching from IEW in the elementary years to LTW until I saw just how powerful essays 7, 8, and 9 are—far better than anything I was taught in college...

,,,and not unlike the Apostle Paul's ultimate essay, the book of Romans.

Because of my degree from a Department of Rhetoric, I know the rhetorical canons well and value building communication from the bottom up.

Not until homeschooling did I fully appreciate literary devices. Now I see literary devices in whatever I'm reading, from The Hiding Place to The Art of War to the Bible.

Rhetoric the right way!

Computer with text "Conciseness for Clarity"

With my degree in Scientific and Technical Communication, I knew how to write clearly and concisely.

Through this course, I show how to add clarity with conciseness and transition words.

Clear, concise, complete, correct, compelling!

As I wrote my own award-winning book, God—through His infinite wisdom—taught me how to co-write with His Holy Spirit.

He wants us to be successful, and He gives wisdom to all who ask!

How Do We improve our invention, arrangement, and elocution skills?

with the

Holy Spirit Advantage!

Break through writer's block with your Holy Spirit Advantage!

Break through writer's block with your Holy Spirit Advantage!

What Does This Program Do for You?

Power of the Holy Spirit

I am in Him & He is in Me

Jesus asked, "So if you know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?” (Luke 11:13)

Learn to co-write with God as you reason together.

KEY TO OVERCOMING WRITER'S BLOCK!

Practical Processes

Tools, Tips, Techniques

LTW teaches how to use the rhetorical canon to write well-reasoned essays.

This course provides explainer videos on how each essay builds on the previous one and how to complete each step.

KEY TO GETTING IT DONE!

Professional Prose

C.S. Lewis quote: "The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature."

Clear, Concise, Complete, Correct, Compelling

The stories you're assigned to read have survived to today because they were well written for their audiences.

By writing essays, you not only show that you can reason well, but you learn to write clear, concise, complete, correct, compelling compositions for your current coursework and for college and for life.

KEY TO OVERCOMING WRITER'S BLOCK!

KEY TO GETTING IT DONE!

KEY TO IMPACTING THE WORLD!

Who

students (whether neurotypical or not)
parent-teachers
Classical Conversations Directors
Writing or literature teachers offering LTW classes

What

explainer videos
downloadables
links to optional content
checklists

When

on your own schedule
at your own pace

Where

online
password-protected web-based course

Bonuses

Downloadables

word-processing file for taking notes
outlines for each essay
Outline for standard 5-paragraph essay even though LTW doesn't teach this outline

Checklists

step-by-step to-do list for each essay

Rubrics

downloadable rubrics
Rubric for 5-paragraph essay

Grammar & Style Tips

How to check for parallelism
From parallelism 1 to pleonasm
Parallelism with asyndeton or polysyndeton
Lists of transition words
Mrs. K's banned words
How to improve upon sample essays

Mrs. Krichbaum provides a comprehensive resource for students and parent-teachers alike in her Lost Tools of Writing course. I am delighted to delve deeper this year (yes, I signed up for another round!) as this "new to homeschooling mom and her teenagers" strive toward writing elegance. Thank you to Mrs. Krichbaum for this indispensable course and for your emphasis on the Holy Spirit advantage!

Amanda Rice

Wisconsin, USA

About Mrs. Krichbaum

Cheryl Krichbaum

“God wants you to be successful!”

Award-Winning Author, Speaker, Writing Coach

award-winning author
B.S. Scientific & Technical Communication, University of Minnesota Department of Rhetoric
unfinished M.A. Rhetoric and Scientific & Technical Communication with emphasis in instructional technology from the same department
taught professional portfolios to undergraduates
researched writing and web design process and the rhetorical canon
taught Scientific Writing to college sophomores
taught Technical Writing to college juniors
wrote online-help system
wrote course websites
wrote training and train-the-trainer manuals
wrote corporate e-newsletters
corporate clients included 3M, Ameriprise, Northwest Airlines, Federal Reserve
homeschool mom
researched teaching elementary homeschool students the writing process
researched teaching resistant writers
former Classical Conversations Challenge B Director
parent-teacher of sons who completed Classical Conversations Challenges A, B, 1, 2, 3
teacher of both in-person and online homeschoolers