Eight weeks.
One paper worth reading.
A structured, instructor-led program that walks your child from a blank page to a completed 1,500 to 2,000 word research paper, with the reading, thinking, and editing habits that make it possible.
Week by week, what actually happens.
Orientation & the research question
We start with the question, not the topic. Students learn the difference between 'World War II' and 'Why the Marshall Plan succeeded where Versailles failed', and leave week one with a defensible question.
Building the bibliography
Twelve to fifteen sources minimum. We teach evaluation: peer-reviewed vs. popular, primary vs. secondary, how to read a book's apparatus to find its better sources.
Reading with a pen
Annotation as thinking. Each source earns its place by what it lets the writer prove. Group sessions critique reasoning chains.
Outlining the argument
Structure before sentences. Thesis, sub-claims, evidence. 1-on-1 conferences tear weak outlines apart, it saves weeks of bad drafting.
First draft
1,500 rough but complete words. Writing is thinking. The first draft exists to be wrong, and to show us what the student actually believes.
Revision for clarity
Every sentence must advance the argument. Students learn to trim anything that doesn't, and to revise with patience rather than frustration.
Citations & formatting
Chicago style, footnotes that are actually useful, a bibliography that holds together. The infrastructure that signals a serious writer.
Final polish & certificate
Line edits, proofs, a Certificate of Authenticity. The manuscript is ready to live in a university application folder.
Everything the tuition covers.
Laid out simply.
2-hour group sessions
Weekly. Small cohort. Everyone is known, nobody hides.
20-min 1-on-1s
Every week. The instructor reads your child's actual draft.
Session recordings
Rewatch any group session or conference.
Full syllabus
The skills map, available on request.
Certificate of Authenticity
Proof the work is the student's own, signed, dated, verifiable.
Completed paper
1,500 to 2,000 words. 12 to 15 sources. Their name on every page.
Free consult
20 minutes with the student and parents before enrolling.
Path forward
Graduates qualify for the Advanced Program when ready.