Do you feel self-conscious about your essays you submit to your teachers?
Have your teachers suggested that you need additional help with your writing?

Description:

• 1-week camp, 7th-12th graders
• Work with UWF Writing Lab mentor (small groups) from intervention to invention of final product
• Appropriate for college-bound students or students who need remediation for FCAT writing.
• Guided practice in language skills
  • Sentence construction
  • Grammar
  • Punctuation
  • Capitalization
  • Word use
  • Other important language skills
• Guided practice in constructing a documented paper
  • Brainstorming
  • Drafting
  • Writing
  • Proofreading
  • Editing

What is this program designed to do for you?

Writing Boot Camp is designed to help and encourage high school students to understand the nature of writing – that writing is not merely communication of ideas, but is, in addition, a process: a way of generating ideas; of talking on paper; of inventing, writing, revising, proofreading, and editing; of learning, and clarifying thinking. 

What will you gain?

Working with a trained writing mentor will help students understand that while writing itself is often a solitary act, the process should include seeking a reader, another “pair of eyes,” for feedback. The outcome of this one-week program will be that participants will also learn the value and usefulness of writing well – personally and, especially, academically.