Creating Your Best Scholarship Application
Meet your instructor
Kate Mohn is a communications and nonprofit professional with extensive experience in strategic communications, creative directing and brand management, web and digital outreach, grant writing, and project management. She is a member of the faculty at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities’ College of Continuing and Professional Studies, where she teaches applied business courses in grant writing. She also runs her own boutique communications consulting business and serves as PFund Foundation’s Director of Foundation Relations and Strategic Communications.
Description and key learning objectives:
Many of us struggle when it comes to writing, but it can be especially hard to write about ourselves! In this quick three-part series (all three videos combined are about 20 minutes), we’ll dig into some easy approaches that you can use to help write the best scholarship application possible. Topics covered include:
How to brainstorm, organize your thoughts, and use pre-writing to set yourself up for success.
Understanding the way PFund scholarships are scored so you can maximize the points your applications earns.
Some tips, tricks, and resources that can help you with the mechanics of writing easy-to-follow sentences and paragraphs and editing your written work.
Video 1: Pre-Writing and Organizing Your Thoughts
Video 2: How PFund Scores Scholarship Applications
Video 3: Writing Mechanics and Editing Tips
Materials and Resources
PFund’s scholarship page: Learn everything you need to know about scholarship eligibility and how to apply.
Presentation slides (PDF). You can use these as a study guide or workbook as you put your application together.
OWL’s Introduction to Prewriting
PFund Scholarship Scoring Rubric (PDF).
OWL’S Guide to Sentence Structure
OWL’S Guide to Clarity in Your Sentences
OWL’s Guide to Sentence Types. A good resource on the basic types of sentences. Check out the menu on the left-hand side of the page for additional tips and tricks, like how to avoid a lot of short and choppy sentences and how to mix up a variety of sentences to keep your writing interesting.
Grammarly. A free online tool that is basically an AI-powered grammar and spell check.