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Join Us for Supplement Writing Workshop!

Many universities, including UBC, SFU, UVic, Ivey, and McMaster have already released their supplemental essay prompts for this year's application season and the deadlines are fast approaching. Writing…

Research Paper? No Problem.

High school and university students, this is for you! The semester is newly upon us, but you may have already heard mention of research papers in your future.…

Adventures with Punctuation: the Dash

En Dashes The en dash is used for dates, time, and a range of numbers. It would be used in a sentence like this one: “Jim was looking…

Write your Way to a Stronger Vocabulary

If you’re a student in grades 8-10 and your vocabulary this summer is slowly diminishing…decreasing…getting worse…becoming bad…then join us for our Ready, Set, Write 8-10, a writing intensive…

All about UCAS Personal Statements

If you're going into grade 12 in the fall and thinking about applying to the UK for university, it's time to start working on your UCAS Personal Statement.…

All about the Common App Essay

Marisa Grizenko

If you’re a student entering grade 12 in the fall and planning to apply to the US for post-secondary, I’ve got a message for you: start working on…

Adventures with Punctuation: the Semicolon

Marisa Grizenko

“Semicolons are not your workaday periods and commas. They belong to the family of trills and volutes; they exist for the sake of complexity, beauty, subtle connections.” So…

A Writing Coach Reflects

Since I started last August as a Writing Coach here at Options, I have certainly learned a lot—how to better teach students to write, how to create instructional materials, and, of course, how to adapt quickly to big changes! As I reflect…

Advice to Young Writers

As someone who has spent a lot of time writing and teaching others to write, I know that writing can be difficult, frustrating, exhilarating, and rewarding. Writing can…

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