As someone who has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, I have made it my mission to make English academic writing easier.

With the help of Artificial Intelligence, I created EssayMaps to harness the power of AI to help you write better academic essays.

The first element is the introduction of the Hamburger Paragraph. As CHAP GPT 4, the AI essay writer, explains it:

"The hamburger paragraph model functions as a practical, easy-to-remember tool that supports effective writing practices, particularly beneficial in educational settings where foundational skills are being taught and reinforced."

Academic essays tend to have only three explanations, comparisons, arguments, or causes, because psychology has shown that people remember information presented in threes rather than in other numbers. This is sometimes described as the "rule of three." As CHAT GPT writes:

"Psychologically, people prefer narratives that have a clear beginning, middle, and end. This structure can be traced back to our earliest storytelling traditions, where a simple, linear progression provides a sense of completeness and satisfaction."

As part of EssayMaps, I incorporate transitions used by CHAT GPT for each type of essay --example, addition, conclusion, etc. All the example essays have been written by CHAT GPT. If you analyze them, you will recognize transitions that EssayMaps includes.

There are a variety of academic paragraph and essay types. Explanatory paragraphs and essays differ from compare-and-contrast, cause-and-effect, and argument paragraphs and essays. Each requires specific outline, paragraph, and essay structure. Each link below includes a tutorial.

Most of the essay types require a variety of transitions. A compare-and-contrast essay, for instance, often includes an example, which requires an example transition. As you progress, all the appropriate transitions used by CHAP GTP will be listed in dropdown boxes.

To make things easier, each paragraph and essay can be printed out in Word. Corrections can be made incrementally so you don't have to retype everything as you move from outline to paragraph to complete essay.

Mastering these techniques will give you confidence that you can write your own essay as well as CHAT GPT. So, let's get started and turn you into an Essay Master.