- Use topic selection as your pathway to a richer and stronger relationship with your children.

- Use the writing process to integrate listening, reading, writing, and speaking skills.

- Learn simple, intuitive criteria that will enable you to evaluate the quality of your student's writing.

- Guarantee your students improved grades by helping them succeed at every phase of the writing process.

- Learn how to prepare your student for the writing requirements of higher education.

- Pre-wire your early elementary student and create a desire to write and to be an effective communicator!

Students and parents in Virginia, Colorado, Maryland, Georgia, Maine, New Jersey, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania have all discovered how to use the simple and effective principles of the Writer's ToolKit.

Student daily writing assignments do not have to be a chore! Our Improving Writing, Creativity and Critical Thinking workshop teaches students young and older how to quickly, confidently and successfully complete a variety of scholastic and technical writing assignments from essays to book reports and research papers.

Both the Parent and Student workshops are based on two sets of critical-thinking tools--Purpose, Plan and Ponder and Boot Camp Basics. These tools are simple to learn and intuitive to use. The results are improved creativity, higher grades and stress-free writing for students and for parents!

In addition, find out how to replace student-dreaded "outlining" with a creative, non-linear organizing technique called mapping. Not only is mapping fun for students of all ages, mapping also stimulates and develops valuable critical thinking skills that can be used at every level in the education process, from elementary to high school, at the university and on into the workplace!

Cost. The two-day workshop is $75 per student. Second student $50. Parents of attending students attend free, otherwise $25.

Key Workshop Benefits:

- No grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. component in the workshop!

- No actual writing or drafting component to the workshop!

- Learn the key to good writing: know what you are going to write before you write it!

- Cut the number of days, hours, or minutes needed to complete assignments.

- Improves grades.

- Learn fun and effective alternatives to traditional outlining.

- Eliminate dreaded writer's block.

- Walk away with fresh motivation and hope about daily writing.