New York Times Writing Contests for high school and junior high school students are very influential in the United States and the world.

Students are trained in this class to improve their control and use of language to expresss themselves. 

NYT writing contest awards are very impressive academic archievments when applying for Prestigious colleges. Being able to receive an awards is a great affirmation of students' language ability.

Opinion Writing Contest

The Opinion Writing Contest requires students to to present their own arguments and discussions in the form of an open letter on a selected issue, clearly express their evidence and logic, and prove their opinions and claims. Since open letters are generally used to express protests or appeals to the public or authoritative institutions, when deciding on a topic, students should not only consider choosing their favorite topic from the issues they care about, but also consider how they can have sufficient arguments. , rigorous argumentation, so as to convince others of your opinions and propositions. The competition requires students to argue that the topic must be specific, and the object of the defense or appeal must be clear, that is, it must be clear who the open letter is written to. This argumentative type of article is the focus of students' high school English learning reading and writing.

Under the guidance of KEC teachers, participating students can make full use of the evidence-based persuasive essay writing method learned in school to write a good article that is persuasive to themselves, the recipients and the public. article. Participating in the Opinion Writing Contest not only complements and promotes each other's studies in school, but is also a good learning and exercise opportunity for children, who can challenge themselves and achieve success under high-level requirements.
 

How do you learn to write? You read a lot, and you study how to write with people who write well.

Dr. Jeffrey has spent many years learning the craft of writing from some of the most interesting contemporary writers today. At Yale, he studied writing with some of the greats in poetry, fiction, and critical writing. He won the Wallace Prize in Fiction and received distinction for his thesis essay. He continued to study fiction in tutorials and in Master Workshops with writers such as Pulitzer prize-winning Marilynne Robinson and Bharati Mukherjee.

Dr. Jeffrey completed his undergraduate study from Yale University and his Masters in English literature at Cambridge and a PhD in Comparative Literature.

He teaches his students how to think with imagination and intellectual acumen, focusing on content and style. 

Many of his students were selected by the New York Times editors to be finalists or winners and/or received regional or national Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

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