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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kids are in FCPS and I feel like they have become decent writers in various fiction styles but have not had enought exposure to writing a classic research paper, similar to what they will write in college.  Perhaps next year our high schooler will experience this in AP classes, but those seem like all fact memorization and shorter DBQs from what I've heard.

Do any of these programs offer a research type of seminar?

I really wish FCPS would drop 1 semester of PE and replace it with a research writing seminar sophomore year.  
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Wish FCPS would take you up on the idea of a research writing seminar. Sophomore year would be a good time for it too.

The Student Summer Institute used to have a workshop that focused on helping older teens prep for college; however, I don't think it was research writing but more aimed at college application essays--? If GMU knows families want a research seminar for high school aged students, they might create one. I'd ask the Northern Virginia Writing Project and if they don't have one, they might be able to direct you to one.

The IB program in FCPS has a strong focus on writing skills. IB expects a lot of writing across all subjects. Also, IB diploma students have to do an Extended Essay on a topic of their choosing which is a 4,000-word research paper. Our kid will start at an IB high school in the fall and we placed her there in part because we knew families where the kids (and the parents) felt that IB prepared them well for college-level writing demands, both in terms of length and content. 
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