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College Essay Guy's Professional Development Workshop Series for School Counselors
March 31st, April 14th, and April 28th at 4-5:00pm PT (7-8:00pm ET)
These are free educational webinars offered by College Essay Guy. Recordings will be emailed to everyone who registers!
Important Note: Select "Register for all dates" to be registered for all three parts of this series.
Part 1 (March 31st): College Essay Guy’s Brief Guide to Brainstorming & Helping Students Choose a Personal Statement Topic
In our first session of the series, I’ll address two of the most common personal statement questions I hear from counselors: 1) How do you help students brainstorm great topics? 2) How do you help a student pick a topic? In particular, I’ll cover:
- What’s the purpose of the personal statement?
- Why I pretty much tell students to ignore the Common App prompts for the personal statement
- The differences between a personal statement and an English essay
- And more, plus time for Q&A
Part 2 (April 14th): College Essay Guy’s Brief Guide to Helping Students Create a Great Personal Statement Outline
In this session, we’ll cover one of the most important — yet sometimes overlooked — parts of the process: outlining. (It’s so overlooked, in fact, that I almost completely left it out of my book, College Essay Essentials.) In particular, we’ll cover:
- Why outlining is so important
- Why students tend not to create outlines (I think)
- How to outline a narrative (challenges-based) essay
- How to outline a montage (non-challenges-based) essay
- And more, plus time for Q&A
Part 3 (April 28th): College Essay Guy’s Brief Guide to Giving Great Essay Feedback
- A simple way to conceptualize the writing process
- Dos and don’ts for giving feedback on a first draft
- Four questions to ask of any essay draft (no matter which structure a student has chosen)
- A brief guide to revising a montage (non-challenges-based) essay
- A brief guide to revising a narrative (non-challenges-based) essay
- And more, plus time for Q&A
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Presenters
Ethan Sawyer
College Essay Guy
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