This is a newly-developed program here at Honors Review, specifically designed for the new format of the SAT writing section. Writing Clinic will help students improve their writing skills in a variety of ways. For example, Writing Clinic aims to improve the basics, such as grammar and punctuation, as well as more advanced aspects of writing, such as writing summaries, sentence structure, and paragraph organization. Our aim is to help your child develop his or her own writing skills so that he or she will do better on the new SAT.

Each week students will analyze an essay that our staff has prepared. We intentionally create mistakes that will test the students’ ability to identify and correct the main grammatical rules the SAT will test: subject-verb agreement; pronoun reference; tense shifts; parallelism; dangling modifiers; idiomatic expressions; fragments, and others.

The students must identify the grammatical flaws and rewrite the faulty sentences correctly. Then the student must look at the essay for flaws in logic, structure, and supporting evidence.

Lastly, the student must rewrite the entire essay using his own approach.

This is a holistic approach to learning grammar and essay writing. It is also highly interactive; the students share their corrections and writing with other students in the class and with the teacher.