Community Corner
How to Jump Start Your College Admissions Essay
The Cos Cob Friends and Staff welcome local Cos Cob resident, Michele Turk, who will present a free workshop for high school seniors on how to write an impressive college admissions essay. You will learn how to brainstorm to select appropriate topics and themes, how to organize and focus your essay and find your voice and particular style, and how to avoid common essay mistakes.
Please come in to sign up or call 203-622-6883 to reserve your spot.
Michele Turk has worked as a writer and editor for two decades. Her articles have appeared in Business Week, USA Weekend, Parents and U.S. News and World Report, among others. She is an adjunct professor of journalism at Quinnipiac University and author of Blood,
Sweat and Tears: An Oral History of the American Red Cross, and Inkstained, a collection of essays by the Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism Class of 1992.