Summer College Essay Writing Workshops - Limited Availability

Workshop Choice 1: Saturday, June 10 AND Saturday, June 24 9am-11:30am

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Workshop Choice 2: Saturday, June 10 AND Saturday, June 24 12pm-2:30pm

Recommended for Class of 2024 and Class of 2025. Students, you will learn how to research your audience and how to prepare, draft, revise, and edit an essay to get the results you want. Class time involves direct instruction with a dash of inspiration, and students will have individual workshop time with feedback from the instructor. Explicit instruction includes the following:

Workshop 1: Learn what colleges and universities are looking for in college essays. Students will analyze their writing prompt(s) and begin brainstorming their essay's topic, their audience's expectations, and how their own strengths fit. Students learn how to think about their own strengths and how to illustrate those character traits into a story that is narrow, appropriate, and engaging. Students will learn how to brainstorm ideas for a college essay. Students will also learn various methods for organizing the college essay. The instructor inspires them to think deeply about who they are and what they want to say.

Workshop 2: Students learn how to write the conclusion and how to blend story elements, including a motif into their essay. Students may work one-on-one with the instructor in breakout rooms on this day. This workshop time is what gets students writing and thinking! Students revise their essays for sentence fluency, then they learn how the editing process helps improve writing. Students learn how to edit for conventions, voice, and how to use grammar programs. They may work one-on-one with the instructor on this day as well as spend time writing in a workshop format.

At the end of the workshops, the student will come away with a draft of the common app personal statement and a plan for how to tackle the most common supplemental essay/scholarship prompts.

Host or Publisher Westlake Magnet Booster Club