As labour-doing technologies become more prevalent for general use in wider society (and educational institutions in particular), instructors may find the need for more nuanced methods with which to teach writing in English for General Academic Purposes (EGAP) contexts, to emphasise the components, skillsets, and steps necessary to create a deductive logical essay. Drawing from the scaffolding principles of Constructive Alignment (Biggs & Tang, 2011) and with consideration of GoogleSheet’s technological features (Kozma, 1991) this poster covers the development of a directly-shared GoogleSheet template to support (via formulas and hyperlinked resources) first-year university students’ initial foray into structure-and-citation focused essay-writing. In addition, the methods and formulas employed in its creation, as well as students’ positive (support-materials, sentence-level emphasis, citation guidance, portability, accessibility) and negative (digital literacy requirements, accountability, privacy) reflections on writing an essay with said GoogleSheet will be discussed. Though such an approach is unlikely to be a universal treatment for all instructors, students, and classrooms, it is hoped that this poster presentation will provide food for thought – along with some takeaway ideas and examples – for instructors considering creating similar online, hyperlinked instructional materials as bridge between paper-based and computer-based writing in the AI age.