100 Successful College Application Essays

100 Successful College Application Essays

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Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780451207135

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An updated guide to college applications essays offers one hundred complete essays that helped gain students admission to the country's top schools, as well as provides helpful advice from admissions officers. Original.


The College Buzz Book

The College Buzz Book

Author: Carolyn C. Wise

Publisher: Vault Inc.

Published: 2007-03-26

Total Pages: 990

ISBN-13: 158131437X

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Many guides claim to offer an insider view of top undergraduate programs, but no publisher understands insider information like Vault, and none of these guides provides the rich detail that Vault's new guide does. Vault publishes the entire surveys of current students and alumni at more than 300 top undergraduate institutions. Each 2- to 3-page entry is composed almost entirely of insider comments from students and alumni. Through these narratives Vault provides applicants with detailed, balanced perspectives.


Writing with Sources

Writing with Sources

Author: Gordon Harvey

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2008-09-01

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1603844848

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Developed for Harvard University's Expository Writing Program, Writing with Sources describes the main principles and methods of integrating and citing sources in scholarly work, and provides cogent guidance on avoiding the misuse of sources. The second edition of Writing with Sources is updated throughout, and includes new material on the roles sources play in argument, on assessing the reliability of sources, and on attitudes about writing that can lead to plagiarism.


Writing across Contexts

Writing across Contexts

Author: Kathleen Blake Yancy

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2014-04-15

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1492012947

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Addressing how composers transfer both knowledge about and practices of writing, Writing across Contexts explores the grounding theory behind a specific composition curriculum called Teaching for Transfer (TFT) and analyzes the efficacy of the approach. Finding that TFT courses aid students in transfer in ways that other kinds of composition courses do not, the authors demonstrate that the content of this curriculum, including its reflective practice, provides a unique set of resources for students to call on and repurpose for new writing tasks. The authors provide a brief historical review, give attention to current curricular efforts designed to promote such transfer, and develop new insights into the role of prior knowledge in students' ability to transfer writing knowledge and practice, presenting three models of how students respond to and use new knowledge—assemblage, remix, and critical incident. A timely and significant contribution to the field, Writing across Contexts will be of interest to graduate students, composition scholars, WAC and writing-in-the-disciplines scholars, and writing program administrators.


College Essay Essentials

College Essay Essentials

Author: Ethan Sawyer

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1492635138

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Let the College Essay Guy take the stress out of writing your college admission essay. Packed with brainstorming activities, college personal statement samples and more, this book provides a clear, stress-free roadmap to writing your best admission essay. Writing a college admission essay doesn't have to be stressful. College counselor Ethan Sawyer (aka The College Essay Guy) will show you that there are only four (really, four!) types of college admission essays. And all you have to do to figure out which type is best for you is answer two simple questions: 1. Have you experienced significant challenges in your life? 2. Do you know what you want to be or do in the future? With these questions providing the building blocks for your essay, Sawyer guides you through the rest of the process, from choosing a structure to revising your essay, and answers the big questions that have probably been keeping you up at night: How do I brag in a way that doesn't sound like bragging? and How do I make my essay, like, deep? College Essay Essentials will help you with: The best brainstorming exercises Choosing an essay structure The all-important editing and revisions Exercises and tools to help you get started or get unstuck College admission essay examples Packed with tips, tricks, exercises, and sample essays from real students who got into their dream schools, College Essay Essentials is the only college essay guide to make this complicated process logical, simple, and (dare we say it?) a little bit fun. The perfect companion to The Fiske Guide To Colleges 2020/2021. For high school counselors and college admission coaches, this is an essential book to help walk your students through writing a stellar, authentic college essay.


The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison

Author: Ralph Ellison

Publisher: Modern Library

Published: 2024-02-27

Total Pages: 817

ISBN-13: 0593730062

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From the renowned author of Invisible Man, a classic, “elegant” (The New York Times) collection of essays that captures the breadth and complexity of his insights into racial identity, jazz and folklore, and citizenship across six decades. Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this definitive volume includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that Black Americans lead. With newly discovered essays and speeches, The Collected Essays reveals a more vulnerable, intimate side of Ellison than what we've previously seen. “Raph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.”


Philadelphia Builds

Philadelphia Builds

Author: Michael J. Lewis

Publisher: Paul Dry Books

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781589881525

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An in-depth tout of Philadelphia's architectural history from the 1700s to the present day--for the general reader.