Introduction to Writing College Essays Part 2: Structure and Review

Writing of the college essay is often an essential component of a student’s college application.

The student’s voice needs to be authentic and clear in their college applications.

In particular, understanding how to brainstorm and structure college essays is an essential skill for students to understand.

Essential elements of identifying the right essay prompt to answer, structuring the essay, managing multiple essay drafts to the final polish process are covered in this course.

This is part two of a two course series, with an introduction to the structure and review process of college essays.

The ideal participant for this course is an aspiring college advisor, current secondary school counselor, CBO advisor or other professional working in college advisement who seeks to expand his or her experiential knowledge of college admissions essays.

It is not required to take Introduction to Writing the College Essay Part 1: Brainstorming before taking this course, however, taking Part 1 before Part 2 is highly recommended.