LilacBush
ACADEMIC ENGLISH FOR TEENS AND YOUNG ADULTS
Key course info
Learning mode Online (with 10 live lessons)
Duration 10 weeks
Time commitment 4-5 hours per week
Live online classes Once a week, 1 hour
Start dates 15 April 2026 at 16:00 GMT
Benefits 10 intensive lessons
Max 4 students per group
Immidiate application to your coursework
Cost
$550
Key course info
Learning mode Online (with 10 live lessons)
Duration 10 weeks
Time commitment 4-5 hours per week
Live online classes Once a week, 1 hour
Start dates 15 April 2026 at 16:00 GMT
Benefits 10 intensive lessons
Max 4 students per group Immidiate application to your
coursework
Cost
$550
COURSE
Intermediate Level
Writing About Processes: Explaining How Things Happen
Master writing about instructional and informational processes. Develop the sequential thinking and organizational skills essential for science writing, historical analysis, and academic communication across disciplines.
Key course info
Learning mode Online (with 10 live lessons)
Duration 10 weeks
Time commitment 4-5 hours per week
Live online classes Once a week, 1 hour
Start dates
15 April 2026 16:00 GMT
Benefits
10 intensive lessons
Max 4 students per group
Immidiate application to your coursework
Cost
$550
Processes surround us constantly - from the biological systems operating in our bodies to the historical movements that shape societies, from the chemical reactions studied in laboratories to the technological systems we use daily, from the natural cycles governing our environment to the procedures we follow to accomplish tasks. Every academic discipline requires the ability to explain sequences: how revolutions unfold over time, how algorithms process information, how ecosystems respond to change, how experiments are conducted, how theories develop and evolve. Understanding how to write about processes means understanding how to analyze and communicate about the fundamental question underlying much of human knowledge: how does this work, and how did this happen?
For English learners and students across all subjects, process writing represents an essential communication skill that appears in virtually every academic context. Science courses require lab report procedures and explanations of natural phenomena. History classes demand descriptions of how events developed and movements spread. Technology and engineering fields need clear technical documentation. Literature and social sciences require explaining how narratives unfold, how characters develop, how social patterns emerge, and how cultural changes occur over time. The ability to break down complex sequences into clear, logical explanations distinguishes competent academic writing from vague or confusing communication. Students who master process writing gain skills that serve them not just in English class, but across their entire academic experience and into professional contexts where clear explanation of procedures, systems, and developments remains constantly necessary.
Focus on Communication Skills and Analytical Thinking
This course develops both the analytical thinking required to understand processes and the communication skills needed to explain them effectively. Learners master organizing sequences logically not just chronologically, use transitions that show relationships between stages, determine how much detail serves your audience and purpose, and test your explanations for completeness and clarity. These skills transfer across contexts and help you write a lab procedure, explain historical developments, describe natural phenomena, or document technical systems.
Process writing teaches you to think sequentially and systematically, which are essential cognitive skills that enhance your understanding of complex material while simultaneously improving your ability to communicate that understanding to others.
Course Overview
Writing About Processes: Explaining How Things Happen is a 10-week course that develops your process writing skills through four phases.
Phase 1 (Lessons 1,2): Learning to distinguish between instructional and informational processes, understanding when each type serves different purposes, and mastering the core skill of writing complete, testable instructions that readers can actually follow.
Phase 2 (Lessons 3-5): Learning to describe natural, historical and social processes; Learning sophisticated transition tools that show relationships beyond simple sequence, and explain historical and social processes that combine chronology with causation.
Phase 3 (Lessons 6-7): Mastering the description of process with unique challenges: cyclic and ongoing processes without clear endpoints and explaining technical systems and mechanisms with appropriate precision and clarity.
Phase 4 (Lessons 8-10) : Applying process writing skills across different academic disciplines, contexts, and formats: lab reports, scientific methods descriptions, historical and analytical writing. Integrating different process types into one piece of writing.
We build fundamental skills before applying them to increasingly complex contexts, developing both the analytical thinking to understand processes and the communication ability to explain them effectively across their academic work.
What You Will Master
Understanding Process Types and Their Purposes
You will learn the difference between instructional processes (instructional writing that tells readers how to perform tasks) and informational processes (explanatory writing that describes how phenomena occur, systems operate, or events unfold), the purposes each type serves, and how audience and context determine which approach is appropriate. A lab procedure requires directional process writing with imperative mood and precise sequencing. A historical analysis combines chronology with causation to show not just what happened but how and why. Understanding these purposes allows you to analyze any process effectively and choose the appropriate writing approach for your academic context.
Writing Complete and Clear Instructions
Creating clear and complete instructions that readers can actually follow is a valuavle skill. You will gain this skill by learning how to use appropriate language tools, break complex procedures into manageable steps, include necessary detail without overwhelming readers, anticipate where confusion might occur, and test your instructions for completeness. Good instructional writing requires you to imagine the reader's perspective, identify implicit knowledge you possess that readers might lack, and make every step explicit enough for successful execution. These skills directly apply to lab report methods sections, procedural documentation, and any context where you need to explain how to perform a task accurately and completely.
Explaining Natural and Scientific Processes
You will learn writing informational processes that explain natural phenomena, scientific concepts, and biological systems. This means learning to use specific grammar tools, precise scientific vocabulary, and logical organization to help readers understand complex sequences. You will practice explaining how natural cycles work, how physical phenomena occur, and how biological systems function. The ability to transform your understanding of scientific processes into clear written explanations strengthens both your comprehension of the material and your capacity to communicate scientific knowledge, which is essential for for lab reports, science essays, and academic discussions across STEM subjects.
Strategic Use of Transitions and Sequencing
You will learn transitional language showing relationships between stages in processes. This extends far beyond basic sequential transitions (first, next, then, finally) to include simultaneous transitions, causal transitions, and temporal markers that show when stages occur and how long they take. You will learn when to use simple chronological organization and when to employ more sophisticated patterns. Strategic transition use makes relationships explicit, helps readers follow complex sequences, and demonstrates your understanding of how stages connect and influence each other, which moves your writing from simple description to analytical explanation.
Describing Historical and Social Processes
You will learn to write about processes that involve people, social forces, and historical development, which are contexts where simple chronology is insufficient. Historical processes require you to show what happened and how events caused other events, how movements developed momentum, how multiple factors interacted, and how outcomes emerged from complex interactions. You will practice explaining how social movements spread, how political changes unfolded, how cultural trends evolved, and how technological adoption transformed societies. These practice develops your ability to combine narrative with analysis to show both the sequence of events and the relationships between them, which is essential for history essays, social studies analysis, and understanding how contemporary developments emerge from past processes.
Managing Cyclic and Ongoing Processes
You will learn to explain processes that do not have clear endpoints, like cycles that repeat (seasons, economic patterns, biological rhythms) and ongoing processes that continue indefinitely (evolution, erosion, technological advancement). You will learn how to use verb tenses that show continuation rather than completion, and how to conclude explanations of processes that do not actually end. You will learn to identify what repeats in cycles and what changes with each iteration, how ongoing processes develop and transform over time, and how to communicate about processes where our current understanding represents just one stage in continuing development. These skills apply to writing about environmental science, economics, long-term historical analysis, and any field where understanding patterns and trajectories matters greatly.
Explaining Technical Systems and Mechanisms
You wiill learn to explain how devices work, how systems function, how technologies operate, and how mechanisms produce their effects. This means learning to identify and describe system components, use precise technical vocabulary appropriately, organize explanations using input-process-output structures where appropriate, and employ analogies that make complex operations understandable. You will practice explaining simple mechanisms and complex systems . Technical process writing appears constantly in STEM fields, technology documentation, and increasingly in social sciences analyzing how technical systems shape societymaking, which makes them essential skill for modern academic work.
Adapting Process Writing Across Disciplines
You will learn to apply process writing skills in different academic contexts. You will learn to recognize what each disciplinary context requires and adapt your process writing approach accordingly, understanding that while the fundamental skills remain constant, their application varies based on purpose, audience, and academic conventions.
This course is designed for motivated school students (15-18) and beginning university students at B1+ (intermediate) level or higher who want to develop process writing skills for academic coursework in English or extend their application of English to other than general fields .
To succeed in this course, you should have:
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B1 (Intermediate) English proficiency or higher, with comfortable reading and writing abilities in English. You should be able to read academic-style texts about processes (how things work, how events unfolded) without struggling with every sentence, and write paragraphs expressing your ideas in connected sentences, even if you are still developing sophistication and accuracy in your writing.
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Basic understanding of paragraph structure, including how paragraphs are organized with topic sentences, supporting sentences, and concluding sentences. You should recognize that paragraphs develop one main idea and understand how sentences work together to explain that idea, even if you are still building skill in constructing well-organized paragraphs yourself.
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Familiarity with basic English grammar, including verb tenses, sentence structure (subject-verb-object), and common parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs). You do not need advanced grammatical knowledge, but you should understand these fundamental elements and be able to construct clear simple sentences.
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Experience writing in English for academic purposes, even if limited. This course focuses on a specific type of academic writing (process explanation), so you should already have some practice writing paragraphs or short compositions in English, not be writing your very first English sentences. Previous experience with other paragraph types (descriptive, narrative) will be helpful but is not required.
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Ability to read and understand sequences in your first language or in English. You should be able to follow step-by-step instructions, understand explanations of how things work, and recognize cause-and-effect relationships when you read them. This course teaches you to write about processes, so you need basic comprehension of sequential information as a starting point.
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Willingness to write multiple drafts and revise your work based on feedback. Process writing requires practice and refinement - testing whether instructions are complete, revising organization for clarity, improving transitions between stages. You should be comfortable with the idea that first drafts need improvement and be ready to work through multiple versions of your writing.
Not suitable if: You struggle with basic sentence construction, have difficulty reading English paragraphs comfortably, or are below B1+ proficiency level.
This course uses a precision-first methodology that emphasizes understanding concepts thoroughly before applying them. You should be:
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Comfortable with detailed explanations and systematic learning
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Willing to engage with theory and strategic thinking, not just practice exercises
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Prepared to allocate 3-4 hours per lesson for reading, practice, and reflection
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Motivated to work in class and independently with comprehensive self-study materials
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Teaching Approach
LilacBush courses values deep understanding of concepts. Each lesson explains the underlying principles that govern how particular concepts, conventions, structures, formats, and organizational patterns work and achieve specific effects. This thorough theoretical foundation allows you to make intelligent decisions about which tool to use in new situations you have not explicitly studied, developing the kind of understanding that transfers across contexts and strengthens your ability to write effectively in any academic genre or discipline.
LilacBush courses are built on the principle that serious learners benefit from appropriate theoretical explanations. Each course provides thorough, grounded explanations of how different writing formats, organizational structures, and language patterns function in academic contexts - why chronological organization serves some processes while cause-and-effect structure serves others, why some contexts require formal passive voice while others benefit from active constructions, why particular transitional phrases signal different relationships between ideas. This theory-based approach respects your intelligence and analytical capabilities, treating you as a serious learner who can understand how writing formats and structures create meaning. The result is deeper, more durable learning that empowers you to select and use appropriate formats confidently and strategically, not just follow memorized patterns that work only in familiar contexts.
We learn language and organizational structures as meaning-making systems where every choice serves a communicative purpose. You learn to think about organizational structures, sentence patterns, transitional phrases, and format choices the way skilled writers do: as tools that control what readers focus on, how information is hierarchized, what receives emphasis, how clearly relationships are expressed, and how effectively our message is delivered. Understanding that different formats exist for different purposes - that instructions are structured differently than explanations, that scientific writing follows different conventions than historical analysis - helps you become a flexible, strategic writer who can adapt approach and format based on purpose, audience, and disciplinary context.
With a maximum of 4 students per group, we secure the thorough attention and personalized guidance that truly effective learning requires. This deliberately small format allows the instructor to review each student's work carefully, providing grounded, developmental feedback that addresses your specific writing challenges and builds on your particular strengths. It also allows the instructor to keep your needs in mind when planning and organizing the work of the group during the course. Unlike generic instructions that could apply to anyone, you receive instruction adapted to your current level - whether you need more foundational support with organizational basics or are ready for more sophisticated challenges with complex format applications. Throughout the course, your instructor tracks your individual development, identifying patterns in your progress, anticipating where you might need additional support, and adjusting guidance to ensure you're building skills systematically.
How the Course Works
How We Learn
This distant learning course is delivered fully online. You can learn anywhere. Live lessons are delivered through Lessonspace, where each group has a dedicated classroom throughout the course. Course materials are located on Canvas. Instructions on how to use both the platforms are sent upon enrollment. Both the platforms are available 24/7, so you can log in and study when and where it suits you.
Live Sessions
Live lessons are scheduled weekly on the same day and time (e.g., Wednesday at 3 PM GMT) and take 60 minutes of intense learning in a small group (up to 4 students). The group is permanent throughout the course.
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Learn and practice applying concepts from that week's lesson
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Receive personalized feedback on your progress
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Ask questions and work through challenges
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Learn from an experiences tutor, your peers' questions and examples
Independent Study
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Read the Student's Book with detailed explanationsof the material covered during the live lesson to deepen your knowledge (approximately 20-30 pages)
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Take end-of-lesson quiz to check understanding
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Complete Workbook exercises with guided practice and submit for assessment and personalized feedback (typically 10-15 exercises per lesson)
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Reflect on application to your own writing
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Review your peers work (optional) to learn from your peers
Your Instructor
You will learn from a dedicated educator and benefit from her expertise in developing academic English skills and nurturing cohorts of successful international students. She will provide you with first-class teaching, guidance and support throughout the course, as well as individualized feedback and ways of further improvement.
Missing a live lesson must be an exception, rather than a rule. If a student must miss a lesson, they learn the lesson material by the Student's Book - the material in each lesson is designed to be easily understood by a self-paced learner. Despite the missed lesson, the exercises which are compulsory for submission and feedback are required to be submitted in due time.
If you must miss a lesson, we strongly advise and require that you (or people you trust) contact your tutor as early as possible so she can suggest a personalized action plan for you to still cover the topic seamlessly and ensure the necessary skills are gained.
If you tutor must miss a live lesson, she will notify your group as early as possible and suggest alternative dates and times.
Your progress will be assessed during live classes, through checking your individual work from workbooks, and self-assessment quizes. There is an option of peer review, though it is upon the student's discretion whether to share their work with others.
Some workbook tasks develop the necessary skills but do not require submission and assessment. Other tasks (3-5 per lesson) will have set deadlines (usually at least 24 hours before the next live lesson) and are expected to be submitted for the tutor's check and feedback. Assignments are submitted through Canvas.
This course consists of 10 lessons delivered over 10 weeks. It takes approximately 40-50 hours of study totally over 10 weeks, that is 4-5 hours per week (a 1-hour online session and 3-4 hours of independent work). This is an indicative guide for a typical student to achieve the learning goals. This time includes online lessons, time for independent study , self-assessment and reflection.
Your tutor is always here to help. Support from your tutor is available through Canvas, your group chat in WhatsApp, email, and one-on-one, depending on the type of support you need. The enrollment package you will receive upon enrollment details the support provided along with suggested means of communication.
What's Included
Comprehensive Learning Materials:
10 Student's Books (one per lesson)
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15-25 pages each of in-depth instruction
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Clear explanations of the techniquesand why they work
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Worked examples with before/after comparisons
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Grounded in actual academic scenarios across disciplines
10 Workbooks (one per lesson)
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Diagnostic exercises to identify your specific challenges
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Guided practice building from identification to application
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Revision exercises using real academic writing samples
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Progressive difficulty - each exercise builds on the last
10 End-of-Lesson Quizzes
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Check your understanding of key concepts
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Immediate feedback on common misconceptions
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Identify areas needing review before moving forward
Reflection Questions for Each Lesson
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Connect concepts to your own writing patterns
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Plan specific applications to upcoming assignments
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Develop metacognitive awareness of your writing process
Live Instruction & Support:
10 Live Sessions
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1 hour per week
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Personalized feedback on your writing
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Real-time practice and application
Direct Access to Instructor
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Ask questions during live sessions
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Get clarification on concepts between sessions
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Receive feedback on writing samples
Cost & Enrollment
Course Cost: $550
Choose Your Payment Plan
Both plans include the full Writing About Processes: Explaining How Things Happen course experience
Option 1: Pay in Full
$550 one-time payment when you enroll
Option 2: Split Payment
Two payments of $275 each
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First payment: After the introductory call
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Second payment: Beginning of Week 4 (Lesson 4)
Money-Back Guarantee
We are confident that our courses transform your academic experience. If you complete Lesson 2 and feel this course is not right for you, contact us within the second week for a full refund.
Interested in taking this course privately? Contact us to discuss this option.
Interested in the course but unable to attend on the scheduled day and time? Contact us to leave your preferred days and times.
What Comes After You Apply
1. Introductory video call: Your tutor will write you to schedule a 15-minute introductory video call at mutually convenient time
2. Payment: We will send you the invoice for payment
3. Welcome email: Details about your assigned group, live session schedule, and how to prepare for the first session
4. Access to course platforms and materials: You will receive login credentials to the course platforms and can start reading available materials.
5. Week before start: Reminder email with technical setup instructions and what to expect in the first live session.
6. Throughout the course: Weekly reminders, access to new materials, and support as needed
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