Resources for Giving Professional Feedback
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EssayQuest is an integrated, adaptable, and affordable system that helps professionals guide high school students through their college essay journey.
Quick, Easy, and Actionable College Essay Feedback
How much time do you spend reviewing college essays? Are your students taking full advantage of your feedback?
Giving feedback to students on college essays can be time-consuming and a bit of a mystery. How much or little to offer? Will it make sense to them, and will they know what to do with it?
Explore a diagnostic and feedback approach built on a framework professional writers use to communicate clearly and intentionally. You’ll leave with printed and online resources to share with students, parents, teachers, and colleagues.
This is the hour-long version of the session Barak led at the 2022 Houston NACAC conference. About 400 people attended.
How to read any college essay like a pro
Most people can’t tell a good college essay from a terrible one. This one-page guide makes it easy for anyone to understand why an essay works, or doesn’t. We go through the same series of questions with our personal mentoring students every time we meet with them.
This is a powerful tool for students, parents, counselors, and teachers and example of the kind of resources we include with EssayQuest.
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