MISSION: Our mission is to provide a venue to recognize excellence in pre-collegiate writing to help motivate and launch the next-generation of scholars who seek to pursue the humanities at the undergraduate and possibly even the graduate (Masters or PhD level) in the future. To fulfill our mission, we seek to is to encourage pre-collegiate students to develop the skills to conduct scholarly research and writing in the humanities, and specifically on topics relating to law, policy, justice, culture and society. Publication in the Journal is just one possible outcome of developing these skills. More importantly, we seek to enk to instill and support an intellectually curious mindset that seeks to explore compelling topics affecting human society.
MENTORING: We work with students through 1:1 coaching to help them develop their research, analysis and writing skills on their research and writing journey. This includes coaching on topic development, formulating research questions; developing and assessing primary and secondary sources; taking , developing and supporting arguments and narratives, documenting claims with citations, including footnotes and bibliography, writing and rewriting.
GET MENTORED: Contact us at editor@paloaltoscholar.com.