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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…

Read More, Write Better

Marisa Grizenko

As a writing coach at Options for many years, I routinely hear parents complaining (lovingly, of course) about their children’s ability to write. They might comment on the…

Here’s How to Read (and Learn to Love!) Poetry

Students often tell me that they don’t like poetry. This seems to be a common attitude among high school students, and I can’t blame them. When I was in high…

Adventures with Punctuation: the Colon

Marisa Grizenko

If there’s any punctuation mark I tend to evangelize about, it’s the colon. Colons are versatile tools, but I’ve noticed that few students use them. Most people know…

Conquering Writer’s Block One Word at a Time

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