How do advisors guide students through the college essay writing process? How does their developmental stage inhibit their ability to write at the level colleges expect? Led by author and UC Berkeley, Extension instructor, Elizabeth Stone, this webinar will help you unlock secrets to helping students write a better essay.

1. The Better College Essay: Fitting in andStanding Out
Elizabeth A. Stone PhD
www.amazon.com/author/elizabethannstone

2. Mentoring students and editing without a pen
why the college essay?
narrative autobiography
adolescent social cognition
the disconnect

3. Person Conceptualization
developmental levels
1. Objective: demographic
2. Evaluative
3. Personality traits, implied dispositions, abilities
4. Modified, Qualified, Elaborative
5. Psychological insight

4. Our teens
Have not yet reached Level 5, the insight that is expected from many essay prompts

5. Mentors or mediators can move teens towards higher levels of person conceptualization by prodding, reflecting, integrating

6. essays can be either DYNAMIC or CATEGORICAL

7. Dynamic: Narrative storytelling
Categorical: Research, opinion, factual

8. Generating material
interview from resume and questionnaire
integrating experiences
reflecting, questioning
story starters
outline free

9. verbal feedback -question -reflect -integrate - discover
editing without a pen

10. self-editing
word currency
word compacting
reading out loud

11. the Better Essay is authentic and demonstrates a cognitive shift

12. www.campanile.us
http://amazon.com/author/elizabethannstone
Email:
estone@campanile.us