Overview

You will understand how to write an analytically-backed article, address an international issue, identify a problem, and formulate a solution using journalistic language. 

Target Audience

Students concerned with international affairs. 

Deadline(s) 
January, May, August 

Overview

You will develop a brief research essay that discusses law-related issues. 

Target Audience

Students who enjoy thinking and writing about current issues.

Deadline(s)

June 

Overview

You will learn how to create a strong thesis, back up your arguments with scholarly sources, logically defend your claims, and practice using academic language to present your ideas. 

Target Audience

Students passionate about Philosophy, Politics, Economics, History, Psychology, Theology, or Law. 

Deadline(s)

June

Overview

You will learn how to structure a review article or research project, conduct scholarly research, ask and answer research questions, prepare a literature review, and contribute to an existing field of research. 

Target Audience

Students interested in the social sciences or the humanities. 

Deadline(s)

February, May, August, November 

Overview

You will understand how to write a research paper proposal, structure your research paper, identify an important research topic, conduct deep scholarly research, and creatively answer your research questions.

Target Audience

Students excited to write about the humanities or social sciences. 

Deadline(s)

October 

Overview

You will understand how to write an analytically-backed article, address an international issue, identify a problem, and formulate a solution using journalistic language.

Target Audience

Students who enjoy writing and learning about History. 

Deadline(s) 

February, May, August, November 

Overview

You will develop your personal writing skills for poetry, a short story, a one-act play, or a personal/academic essay. This competition is mainly focused on creative writing.

Target Audience

Students who enjoy writing and reading creatively about various topics. 

Deadline(s)

November

Overview

You will understand how to craft a creative piece of writing, incorporating originality, problem-solving skills, and structure as you draw from your interests, personal experiences, and/or imagination. 

Target Audience

Students interested in writing Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, memoirs, or critical essays. 

Deadline(s)

December

Overview

You will learn how to identify key political events and figures, construct a thesis, conduct scholarly research to back up your claims, present an original argument, and logically organize your essay. 

Target Audience

Students interested in History or Politics. 

Deadline(s)

January

Overview

You will learn how to apply economic theories, build a convincing argument, conduct scholarly research, use academic writing skills, and defend your point of view using logic. 

Target Audience

Students interested in writing or learning about Economics.

Deadline(s) 

January

Overview

You will contribute to the development of critical, inquisitive and philosophical thinking. You will use philosophy to think and write critically about various issues/ideas that matter in life.

Target Audience

Students who enjoy applying philosophical ideas to concrete situations.

Deadline(s)

January

Overview

You will learn how to present your argument in a compelling manner, logically format your essay, and conduct in-depth analyses of key quotes, notable events, and character traits.

Target Audience

Students interested in Philosophy, English literature, or persuasive writing. 

Deadline(s)

- Anthem: May
- The Fountainhead: June, September, December 

[Step 1] Orientation + Ideation & Brainstorming
We want to ensure that our clients are fully informed of all the details associated with consulting steps. During the orientation, we go over each consulting step in detail, address any questions/concerns, and introduce our project platform (on which clients should upload comments, questions, drafts, and other documents), as well as how to utilize it. Once we familiarize our clients with the logistics of our platform, we are ready to begin brainstorming. Every great essay must begin with good ideas. These are ones uniquely generated and selected by the writer, and they directly contribute to producing a final draft that is both logical and creative. In this step, J&B methodologically helps clients come up with superb ideas for their competition essays. 

[Step 2] Topic/Idea Confirmation
By the end of Ideation & Brainstorming session, clients should expect to have working but less concrete ideas for their potential essay topic(s). That is absolutely fine. In this step, J&B helps polish the rough, incomplete ideas. How so? Well, by providing clients with top three topics of their interest and passion. This is feasible, for we are relying on the client's ideas and thoughts gathered in Ideation & Brainstorming session. We make sure we fully utilize the client's ideas and thoughts in order to transform them into a list of competitive topics that fully reflects the client's interest and passion.  

[Step 3] Lecture
Once the topic is selected and finalized, we are ready for the lecture. In this step, our consulting team prepares and provides clients with a detailed, PowerPoint-based lecture on the selected topic. The clients are additionally provided with ten scholarly journals to review and prepare to actively engage in discussions for Step 4, which is a seminar session. 

[Step 4] Seminar/Debate
Prior to this step, we expect clients to thoroughly re-review the lecture slides as well as scholarly journals provided with. In this step, we engage in active discussions with clients on three to five journals of our choice. Clients should expect to, for example, restate the writer’s thesis in their own words, formulate counterarguments that would potentially invalidate the writer’s claim(s) and others. By the end of Seminar/Debate session, clients should be ready to begin working on an outline.

[Step 5] J&B's Unique Outline 
In this step, clients will be provided with J&B outline template, model outline and reading sources. It is vital to fully understand the underlying structure and logic in the outline template. A pursuit of essay writing is both creative and logical. Merely having creative ideas is not enough; having a solid, logical structure with compelling evidence to adequately embrace those ideas is equally important to produce a unique, superior final draft. We need both art and science to create a masterpiece.  

[Step 6] First Draft
Once clients fully review and understand the outline template, model outline and reading materials provided in the previous session, they are now ready to work on a first draft. A significant number of our clients have greatly benefited from the resources, especially the model outline. The outline – typically 7-12 page-long – is detailed and clear enough for the clients to fully understand the content (e.g. thesis, claims, etc.) as well as underlying logical structure. Don’t worry if the first draft seems rough and incomplete! It is supposed to be, indeed, rough and incomplete at this stage. 

[Step 7] Editing & Feedback
In this step, it is J&B’s full responsibility to make thorough, detailed edits as well as provide meaningful feedback to the first draft produced by clients in First Draft step. We utilize comments when giving feedback; moreover, we ensure to correct inconsistencies, logical fallacies, awkward, ungrammatical sentences, and others. Our edits and feedback are detailed, clear and meaningful.

[Step 8] Second Draft
After thoroughly reviewing the edits and feedback provided in Editing & Feedback #1 step, clients are now ready to revise the first draft, which ultimately becomes a second draft. We expect they carefully review and consider our feedback left in comments accordingly. In case clarification or/and elaboration required, we can be readily reached on a clients’ project platform. 

[Step 9] Final Editing & Polishing
In this step, we ensure to review and correct, if needed, all errors, both big and small. Moreover, we polish any word, sentence or paragraph that requires further improvement. J&B believes, based on experience, that an infinite number of revisions do not necessarily lead to a more quality draft; rather, it often results in, oy vey, a worse quality draft. Our edits, feedback and polishing are quality-oriented not quantity-oriented. 

[Step 10] Evaluation
Upon satisfactorily producing a final draft, our next and final step of consulting is so-called evaluation. We thoroughly evaluate clients’ writing skills based on session participation (e.g. ideation & brainstorming, seminar, etc), first and second drafts. It is our aim that clients meaningfully utilize the evaluation along with other academic resources and experience gained from consulting when working on other essays in future. We truly hope the experience with us will help them become more independent, competent essay writers. 

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