Testimonials

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Carrie Ashcraft Career Teacher Language Arts and Social Studies Reagan Academy Springville, Utah At Ronald Reagan Academy, I am a middle school Language Arts teacher, and I work on a leadership committee in the school, as well. I have seen many programs come and go in my last ten years, but Bill Drew’s NewView Program is here to stay. As a teacher, I use the NewView Program to teach students how to think about their writing and how to make meaningful connections to the literature we are reading. The Secret DNA of series of books that Bill has written to implement his NewView Program provide a one-of-a-kind approach that is so intuitive and so insightful that it will forever change the way you teach and think about reading and writing. As you train your students in using the OldView-NewView concept, you will see them rise to a far higher, more productive level of thinking, writing, and reading than you ever thought possible. Hard to believe? Just read the testimonials Bill is sharing with us all on this page!

Kelsey Duque High School Student, Age 16 San Bernardino, California I’ve always been an Honors student, and English is no exception. I usually get good grades on my essays and never really thought that writing was something I had to work on. But then I read The Secret DNA of Writing Essays—And Everything Else. It is well written, and I understood it easily. When I finished it, I kind of wondered why nobody had talked about NewView before, it’s so simple and yet so powerful. And after I wrote some essays using the NewView principles and methods, I realized that I could do so much better, and this program is helping me reach my full potential. Not only is it improving the quality of my work, it’s cutting the time I spend writing in half! The NewView Essay Services program on the Secret DNA website is so unbelievably helpful. Anytime I get stuck or don’t know what to do, there are tons of tools and resources to help me. There are plenty of examples and explanations to clear things up for me, and in no time my writer’s block is gone. My only complaint is that I just found out about this in my Junior year of high school. I wish I would have known about this years ago. There is no question, in my mind, at least, that the NewView principles and methods and the NewView Essay Services computer program should be used in schools everywhere. I’m just so grateful I found out about this before college. This is definitely going to make those ten-page thesis papers a lot easier!”

Jeffrey C. Ballard Professional Educator/Teacher Rees Elementary School 574 North Rees Avenue Spanish Fork, UT As an elementary school teacher, I have enjoyed reading about and implementing the strategies for writing that I found in The Secret DNA of Writing Essays—And Everything Else. The NewView principles of writing in that book have been very useful in my own writing, as well as in the elementary school classroom that I teach. The sequences for good writing explained so superbly well in this book are effective not only for adults, but, with just a little simplification, also for third, fourth and fifth graders! Using the NewView principles and techniques from that book, which I modified for them, my third, fourth, and fifth grade students learned how to recognize good writing and good writers. Once they got the hang of it, they enjoyed pointing out that their favorite authors could use a little help with NewView, too—and they were right! Then they began using it in their own writing assignments. And the writing improved noticeably for all of my students in the two-month period I have taught them the NewView principles and methods, not to mention their much expanded awareness of good writing practices and what makes good prose. And I expect further writing growth from them as I continue to teach them the NewView methods. I recommend The Secret DNA of Writing Essays—And Everything Else to any adult who wants to improve their writing in a short time frame. And I highly recommend it to elementary school teachers who want to help their students write better and to understand what writing is all about on the idea level, not just the grammar and form and format level, which is what most other books on writing teach. Why do they do that? Simple—because they don’t have the 5 NewView Options and this wonderful book, yet.”

Lisa Adams Writing Instructor Co-Author of the popular book, Why We Read What We Read The Secret DNA of Writing Essays gets right to the heart of successful writing. Bill Drew’s original and simple-yet-powerful approach pinpoints exactly what good essays do and why. It also provides a thought-provoking insight into analyzing fiction. His NewView method provides a new way for thinking about writing and for creating new ideas to write about – one that will help struggling writers improve, while also enabling more experienced writers to take their work to the next level. How? By focusing in-depth on what other writing texts merely mention in passing–if at all!–that all-encompassing, ever-fresh principle, ‘What’s new to the reader.’

Lind R. Williams English Teacher Utah County Academy of Sciences Orem, Utah I am a high school English teacher and former Language Arts Specialist in my school district. I have read many books on writing and the teaching of writing and have learned much from them. But none of them will tell you what Drew has discovered. We can talk about purpose, creativity, newness, and originality in rather abstract ways. But Drew will show you the key for making old ideas new. What Secret DNA will teach you is indispensable, and, except for teachers who have read Drew’s theory and his workable practical processes, it has never been taught before. If you write or teach writing, you need this book, The Secret DNA of Writing Essays–And Everything Else, and the NewView concept it shares. Your students need it, too.

Mark A. Effinger CEO, RichContent Corporation Chief Evangelist, ThoughtOffice Corporation Bill Drew’s new e-book, The Secret DNA of Writing Essays—And Everything Else, completely resets the Rules for Writing. At the core of Bill’s e-book, there’s a powerful revolutionary principle—NewView! What does it do? NewView generates content & ideas. Of course, that’s the reverse of what’s been taught in classrooms for over two thousand years—form, nothing but dull form. Secret DNA shows that all content is based on the familiar—what’s ‘old.’ And this innovative e-book gives you a simple 5-point guide that helps you twist and turn the old—and create something truly NEW. The NewView. Secret DNA gives you a palette of incredibly simple tools that do things for you. Tools anyone can use to make their written words so much more powerful, compelling, engaging. With what? With essays, short stories, novels, poetry, articles, press releases, blog posts, proposals, sales letters, advertisements, emails—you name it. NewView helps you make whatever you write appealingly new to your readers. Bill’s e-book and companion software show you how, simply, step-by-step, you can write like a master. If you use words to succeed in your life—school, work, play—Secret DNA and NewView will help you craft next-generation content. Models & symbols that illustrate principles & processes. Templates that stimulate your thinking—so you can stimulate your readers’ thinking. A command of language that lifts your ideas & words above the commonplace. Words & ideas that’ll rock your readers. Get you better grades. Help you get published. Thanks, Bill, for showing us how to dazzle & delight our readers!

Susan Goodsell Business Referral Marketing professional Upland, California I’ve read the e-book The Secret DNA of Writing Essays—And Everything Else, and I’ve used the NewView Essay Services program on the Secret DNA website and simply had to send a testimonial. No one in their right mind would ever accuse me of being a techie person, but I was blown away by the ease of use in the computer program and by the explanations, examples, and other tools available just a mouse click away. And the templates are just fantastic! I was a foster parent for 12 years, and thinking back on the nights I spent trying to assist my kids (most of them struggled in school) on their English and literature homework, I cannot help but wish I had this writing tool available then – not just to save time, but to aid in the children’s understanding of the process of writing essays—and everything else, as the Secret DNA e-book says. This isn’t a ‘use it once, then forget it’ system, but rather a methodology that will be used over and over again in school, higher education, everyday communication, and even the business world. Further, I myself am a writer, and I have ‘caught’ myself formulating articles based on the OV/NW system! Now that I’ve fully internalized NewView, it’s not even a conscious thing. It has become an automatic writing and thinking tool for me every bit as useful as my laptop or my reference materials. Here’s my heart-to-heart advice: Sample both the book and the program, buy them, and use them to improve everything you write or speak…like me, you’ll be VERY glad you did!“

Lind R. Williams English Teacher Utah County Academy of Sciences Orem, Utah I am a high school English teacher and former Language Arts Specialist in my school district. I have read many books on writing and the teaching of writing and have learned much from them. But none of them will tell you what Drew has discovered. We can talk about purpose, creativity, newness, and originality in rather abstract ways. But Drew will show you the key for making old ideas new. What Secret DNA will teach you is indispensable, and, except for teachers who have read Drew’s theory and his workable practical processes, it has never been taught before. If you write or teach writing, you need this book, The Secret DNA of Writing Essays–And Everything Else, and the NewView concept it shares. Your students need it, too.