Essay Planner

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About this program

Aim: The aim of this program is to help you plan your essay about "Doctors make too many mistakes in Hong Kong hospitals". It will:

help you to plan your essay
help you to write your essay, including the Introduction, Body, and Conclusion.
help you to proof-read your essay
produce an essay, which you can save and print out using your browser's File menu.
and speak your essay to you. You can choose a male or female voice.

1. Plan your Essay: Drag and drop points to include in your essay

Drag and drop the points below that you want to include in your essay into the topic boxes on the right >

Doctors make too many mistakes in Hong Kong hospitals

Cause: misleading evidence may lead them to make... (Man (2009))
Cause: some doctors based their judgement on trial...
- but: they should not play God with people's lives
- because: they don't have all the medical records of...
  - Solution: health information technologies can provide... (The Economist (2009))
- because: mistakes are inevitable
  - Solution: malpractice insurance can pay for their...
    - but: this drives up the cost of health care
      - but: but it costs the patient's life and the...
  - because: doctors are humans too
Cause: they may lack the relevant experience to...
Cause: they work long hours and don't get enough...
- Solution: their working hours can be capped
  - but: insufficient staff makes it necessary for...
    - but: more staff can be hired to share the workload
      - but: a brain drain has made it harder to find...
- because: sleep deprivation can impair judgement
but: not all mistakes are made by doctors
- because: failures in the health care delivery system...
  - Problem: poor communication between hospital staff
because: They don't respect the patient so much!
- but: It happened due to the egoistic behavior...

Move to the next stage and write your essay.

The introduction will go here, but don't write it until you after have chosen your topics.

Topics: (drag points from the left into the topic boxes below. To delete a point, double-click the box, after the point's text):

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2. Write your essay

Introduction

Instructions: Fill in or edit these boxes so that the grammar is correct:

Move 1: Identify the topic / theme

First sentence: Why is the topic important? (e.g. Whether doctors make too many mistakes in Hong Kong hospitals is currently a controversial topic.) Tip: do not use 'Nowadays' or 'hot topic' because they are too informal for academic essays.
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Move 2: Provide background information (you can put a definition here or in the Definition section)
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Move 3: Show how the background leads to the problem / issue
e.g. Due to this situation, ...

Move 4: State the objective / purpose
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Move 5: Outline the structure
e.g. This essay addresses main issues. These are:
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Click here to , then wait for the page to appear.

Definition (optional)

Write definitions of any terms that you want to define in the bigger of the two boxes below.
The definition should include the term you are defining; e.g. ' can be defined as...', and the type or category of thing it is.

Search for definitions of in

Definition content:

Term, verb, description; e.g. 'Hong Kong is a world-class Asian city.'
Term, verb, classification, what it is a type of; e.g. 'Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China.'

Optional additional definition content:

The importance of the term; e.g. 'Hong Kong has a population of nearly 7 million and has the sixth highest per-capita GDP in the world.'
Any common misunderstandings; e.g. 'The term 'Hong Kong' applies not only to the Special Administrative Region (SAR), but also to Hong Kong island, which is only one of the over-250 islands in the SAR. (Wikipedia (2025). )'
References for statements in the definition; e.g. Wikipedia (2025). '.
Examples; e.g. 'There is one other example of a special administrative region of China, and that is Macau.'
Controversies; e.g. 'The most suitable level of democratisation for Hong Kong has been controversial since 1997.'
It's development; e.g. 'Beginning as a trading port in the 19th century, Hong Kong has developed into a leading financial centre. Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 until the transfer of its sovereignty to the People's Republic of China in 1997. (Wikipedia (2025). )'

Findings

Point 1

1.1 Make a topic sentence by filling in these fields:
1.1.1 Write or edit the ordering, hedging and organisation system words:
Firstly, probably the most important argument is that
1.1.2 Write or edit the rest of the topic sentence:

1.2 Write or edit the details of point 1 in here:

Point 2

2.1 Make a topic sentence by filling in these fields:
2.1.1 Write or edit the ordering, hedging and organisation system words:

2.1.2 Write or edit the rest of the topic sentence:

2.2 Write or edit the details of point 2 in here:

Point 3

3.1 Make a topic sentence by filling in these fields:
3.1.1 Write or edit the ordering, hedging and organisation system words:

3.1.2 Write or edit the rest of the topic sentence:

3.2 Write or edit the details of point 3 in here:

Point 4

4.1 Make a topic sentence by filling in these fields:
4.1.1 Write or edit the ordering, hedging and organisation system words:

4.1.2 Write or edit the rest of the topic sentence:

4.2 Write or edit the details of point 4 in here:

Click here to
(Please be patient, as it may take some time to process) .

Discussion (Optional)

Compare the quality of the above arguments here:
e.g. "While the first argument seems persuasive, the second argument is better supported by evidence, and that evidence appears to be of higher quality."

Conclusion

1. Re-state objective
e.g. In conclusion, in this essay the objective was

2. Summarise the main points
e.g. To summarise, main points have been covered,
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4. Evaluate evidence
Compare the quality of the different points that you have included above.

5. Express your view
e.g. "In my view," + clause; " Taking all these arguments into consideration, I believe that" + clause; or " My personal opinion is that" + clause.

6. Make recommendations or describe the future of the topic
e.g. "I recommend that" + clause; "I recommend" + _ing verb + ...; "This would result in" + noun phrase.

Click here to , then wait for the page to appear.

Bibliography / References

3. Proof-read your Essay

The following functions will help you to proof-read your essay:
And proof-read it with your own eyes!

Check spelling Change language

4. Print your essay script

Click here to print out a script of your essay.

5. Listen to part of the essay

Listen to your:

Wait

Audio files

Your essay text will load into the text-to-speech program. This will take about 30 seconds.

The audio files of your essay will appear below.

Wait for the 'Play' buttons to appear.

Click the 'Play' buttons to hear the sentences from your essay.

Text-to-speech output files:

These boxes are for converting your text into speech. The program will fill your words into the boxes below automatically, but you can edit them or replace them if you wish:

Text-to-Speech Wizard

The Text-to-Speech Wizard can create a monologue (such as a essay) or a conversation dialog. You can have up to 10 conversational moves with different voices.

Enter the name for each speaker in the left column, then write in the conversation text you want spoken. Select the appropriate voice for each speaker.
The whole dialog will then be sent to the speech engine and recorded as separate audio files for each speaker move in the conversation.
The HTML page generated by the wizard will then be sent back.

Enter a title for your dialog:

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NOTE: The audio files may take some time to download after you submit.

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