The head of NewView Options, Bill Drew, makes a rather disturbing claim. “American students aren’t doing well on national writing tests.” He bases his assertion on recent studies that indicate writing skills are in decline in US schools. Drew goes on to say, “That’s why I created NewView Options, wrote The Secret DNA of Writing Essays-And Everything Else, engineered the NewView Essay Writing Services computer program, and created a website to bring it all together.”Drew reports that one high school teacher has been quite happily using his NewView principles for over twenty-five years since just after Drew finished the Master’s thesis that is now the basis of his new e-book. A local elementary school teacher is also using it with his third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade students, with excellent results.