The EssayJack Origin Story: Now Wize Writer
EssayJack is an online academic writing software that was acquired by Wizeprep in 2021. It is now part of the Wizeprep suite of tools to help students all across North America get their best grades ever.
Its co-founders, Dr. Lindy Ledohowski & Dr. Rueban Balasubramaniam, long believed that mastery over language is a profound equaliser.
When Lindy was teaching Advanced Placement English as a high school teacher she placed a homemade sign above her door that read:
“Analyse the world around you and be empowered.”
This philosophy is a core principle underpinning their commitment to education and empowerment that has taken them as educators from high school to university, and to this day, is a fundamental pillar of both EssayJack and Wizeprep. You'll find Lindy helping Wizeprep students master English reading and Writing Skills right here.
So...Why Did She Create Writing Software?
In their collective years of teaching, they recognised a problem: students weren’t equipped to deal with the demands of academic, scholarly writing.
This wasn’t due to students lacking insights or interesting questions, and it wasn’t because they were incapable of critical thinking.
Rather, students didn’t possess the basic skills required to construct a scholarly essay. Students were unprepared for scholarly writing for a variety of reasons. Sometimes they had less than ideal high school training or needed more help than they could access at university.
Other times they came from another country with different expectations.
To Lindy and Reuben, the issue was about more than enabling students to excel in academic writing. Students are at a disadvantage in life if they can’t organise their thoughts into logical arguments, weigh facts and evidence, and build cogent perspectives.
How can we make important decisions if we can’t analyse evidence? How can we express ourselves if we can’t organise our thoughts coherently?
Lindy and Rueban began to think about solving this problem with technology. They sat down and began cutting out pieces of paper, playing with ideas of what a digital essay-writing tool that offered organisational guidance - without being too prescriptive - would look like.
They played with a variety of different ideas, arguing back-and-forth about the relationship between form and content and the pedagogical principles over which they would allow no compromise.
Then they had their “AH HA” moment. Rueban had the opportunity to tour a massive scaffolding factory and seeing the connecting bits and pieces of scaffolding inspired him:
They were building scaffolding for writing!
From that moment on, they had clarity around how they would create a modular, cloud-hosted, web-based structure for essay writing for liberal arts and humanities students.
And now what began as the brain child of two dedicated professors has become a product within the Wizeprep family! Try it today:
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