Concord Review

Subject(s): History

Eligibility:
✓ Students worldwide
✓ Grades 9-11

J&B Sessions:
- 12w, Jan - Mar 2023 

- 12w, Apr - Jun 2023

- 12w, Jul - Sep 2023
- 12w, Oct - Dec 2023

International Journal of High School Research

Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences

Eligibility:
✓ Students worldwide
✓ Grades 9-11

J&B Sessions: 
- 12w, Jan - Mar 2023
- 12w, Apr - Jun 2023
- 12w, Jul - Sep 2023
- 12w, Oct - Dec 2023 

Journal of Student Research

Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences

Eligibility:
✓ Students worldwide
✓ Grades 9-11 
J&B Sessions:
- 12w, Jan - Mar 2023
- 12w, Apr - Jun 2023
- 12w, Jul - Sep 2023
- 12w, Oct - Dec 2023 

International Social Science for Conference for Youth

Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences

Eligibility:
✓ Students worldwide
✓ Grades 9-11

J&B Sessions: 
- 12w, Apr - Jun 2023
- 12w, Jul - Sep 2023 

The Columbia Junior Science Journal

Subject: Social Sciences

Eligibility:
✓ Students worldwide
✓ Grades 9-11 

J&B Sessions:

- 12w, Apr - Jun 2023
- 12w, Jul - Sep 2023 

Step 1. Ideation & Brainstorming
One does not need to emphasize how important it is to have good ideas in essay writing. We (“J&B”) certainly know what they are. Good ideas are the ones uniquely generated and selected by the writer, and they directly contribute to producing a final draft both logical and creative. In Step 1, J&B methodologically help clients come up with not just so-so but superb ideas for their journal papers. This step is highly important, for we try our best to generate the most suitable idea(s) for our clients. Such ideas will be, in turn, transformed into a winning topic for the client’s chosen journal publication. 

Step 2. Topic Confirmation
By the end of Step 1, clients should expect to have working but less concrete ideas for their potential paper topic(s). That is absolutely fine. In Step 2, J&B helps polish the rough, incomplete ideas. How so? Well, by providing clients with highly relevant reading sources in PDF format! The reading materials not only help them gain necessary knowledge, understanding and diverse ideas on potential paper topics but also help the clients confidently select, given a number of preferred topic options, the topic of the highest interest by the end of the step.

Step 3. Lecture
Once the topic is selected and finalized, we are ready for the lecture. In Step 3, Essay Advisor from the 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
Prior to this step, we expect clients to thoroughly re-review the lecture slides as well as scholarly journals provided with in Step 3. 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 Step 4, clients should be ready to begin working on an outline.

Step 5. Philosophical Logic & Outline
In this step, clients will be provided with the following package: (1) J&B outline template, (2) customized outline and (3) reading sources. It is vital to fully understand the underlying structure and logic in the outline template. An outstanding journal paper should always be 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. Regardless of one’s preferred research topic, we need both art and science to create a masterpiece.

Step 6. Introduction Part: Abstract, Thesis & Background
Once clients fully review and understand the materials provided in Step 5, they are now ready to work on the first part of a research paper, the introduction. The introduction often contains abstract, thesis and background sections. The aim of this step is to ensure the clients can produce necessary content for the required sections accordingly. A significant number of our clients have greatly benefited from the Step 5 resources, especially the customized outline. The outline – typically 7-12 page-long – is detailed and clear enough for the clients to fully understand and follow 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, we will make thorough, detailed edits as well as provide meaningful feedback to the introduction paragraphs produced by the client in Step 6. 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. If additional scholarly journals and/or articles needed, we will help locate them accordingly.

Step 8. Body Part: Literature Review, Methodology & Results
After thoroughly reviewing the edits and feedback provided in Step 7, the client is now ready to work on body paragraphs, typically including literature review, methodology and results (if relevant) sections. We expect the client carefully reviews and considers our feedback left in comments to avoid making the same mistakes. Since this step is most demanding and time consuming of all the steps, we highly recommend the client to carefully work on the paragraphs; moreover, in case further clarification or/and elaboration required, we can be readily reached on a clients’ project platform.

Step 9. Editing & Feedback
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. Conclusion Part: Discussion & Concluding Remarks
After thoroughly reviewing the edits and feedback provided in Step 9, the client is now ready to work on the last part of a research paper: Conclusion, generally containing discussion and concluding paragraphs. We expect the client carefully reviews and considers our feedback left in comments to avoid making the same mistakes. Since this step is the final part of the paper, we encourage the client to re-review everything produced so far (e.g. introduction and body parts along with the edits and feedback) prior to start working on this step.

Step 11. Overall Edits and 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. At the end of this step, a quality, polished final draft is produced.

Step 12. 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), introduction, body and conclusion parts. It is our aim that clients meaningfully utilize the evaluation along with other academic resources and experience gained from consulting when working on other research papers in future. We are confident the experience with us will help them become more independent, competent researchers and writers.