College Essay Essentials

College Essay Essentials
Author: Ethan Sawyer
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2016-07-01
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1492635138

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.

Real Essays Essentials

Real Essays Essentials
Author: Miriam Moore
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2018-06-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1319153488

Get Miriam Moore's advice for planning, drafting, and revising essays--even when you aren't online! Author Miriam Moore believes in helping students learn to trust themselves as readers, writers, and thinkers. Writing Essentials Online: A Macmillan Launchpad provides a space where students can build both confidence and strong academic writing skills that will carry them forward in college and career. A portable print text, Real Writing Essentials works together with Writing Essentials Online to deliver just the support necessary in order to develop paragraphs and essays. It can be packaged with Writing Essentials Online at a significant discount.

Real Essays with Readings

Real Essays with Readings
Author: Susan Anker
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 905
Release: 2011-12-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0312648081

Real Essays delivers the powerful message that good writing, thinking, and reading skills are both essential and achievable. From the inspiring stories told by former students in Profiles of Success to the practical strategies for community involvement in the new Community Connections, Real Essays helps students to connect the writing class with their real lives and with the expectations of the larger world. So that students don’t get overwhelmed, the book focuses first on the most important things in each area, such as the Four Most Serious Errors in grammar; the Four Basics of each rhetorical strategy; and the academic skills of summary, analysis, and synthesis. Read the preface.

Real Essays Essentials

Real Essays Essentials
Author: Miriam P. Moore
Publisher: Bedford Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781319153458

Author Miriam Moore believes in helping students learn to trust themselves as readers, writers, and thinkers. Writing Essentials Online: A Macmillan Launchpad provides a space where students can build both confidence and strong academic writing skills that will carry them forward in college and career.A portable print text, Real Writing Essentials works together with Writing Essentials Online to deliver just the support necessary in order to develop paragraphs and essays.--publisher's description.

Real Essays with Readings with 2009 MLA Update

Real Essays with Readings with 2009 MLA Update
Author: Susan Anker
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 946
Release: 2009-06-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0312607555

Click here to find out more about the 2009 MLA Updates and the 2010 APA Updates. Real Essays with Readings is the essay-level book in Susan Anker’s highly successful series of writing texts that motivate students with their message that writing is an essential skill in college and in real life — and that this skill is achievable. Anker’s advice, examples, and assignments show the relevance of writing to all aspects of students’ lives, and profiles of former students prove that success is attainable. Like all the books in the Anker series, Real Essays presents writing in logical, manageable increments: step-by-step writing guides and a focus on the "four basics" of each mode of writing keep students from becoming overwhelmed. Real Essays maintains its emphasis on what really matters by focusing on the four most serious errors (fragments, run-ons, subject-verb agreement problems, and verb form problems). Real Essays gives students what they need to succeed in college and become stronger academic writers.

Real Essays Interactive

Real Essays Interactive
Author: Susan Anker
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2015-01-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1457698226

Real Essays Interactive Update Edition offers practical coverage of paragraph-to-essay writing skills in a brief, interactive, and affordable format. The print component offers the essentials of Anker’s accessible writing instruction along with select exercises.

Real Essays with Readings

Real Essays with Readings
Author: Susan Anker
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-01-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1319126677

Real Essays puts essay writing in a real-world context, showing students that critical writing, reading, and thinking skills are both attainable and essential to student success. Real Essays helps students to connect the writing class with their real lives and with the expectations of the larger world. This new edition has expanded rhetorical situation coverage, emphasizing the rhetorical triangle (audience, purpose, and author), and helping students think and read more critically. In addition, even more situational writing from the workplace showcases how students will use writing beyond the classroom. Profiles of Success from former students, over forty professional and student readings (50% new), and proven step-by-step grammar and writing instruction, energize and encourage students while giving them the support they need. With a simplified design, this updated version of Real Essays helps students realize their goals and gives instructors the support and tools they need to help them reach those goals.

Real Reading and Writing

Real Reading and Writing
Author: Susan Anker
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 660
Release: 2014-12-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1457688700

Real Reading and Writing puts both reading skills and writing skills in a real-world context, showing students that good writing, reading, and thinking skills are both achievable and essential to their success in college and beyond. Miriam Moore, a developmental and ESL specialist from Lord Fairfax Community College, collaborated with Susan Anker to provide students with an integrated reading and writing package. Students connect reading and writing with their real lives through practical examples, model writing samples, and readings that are both engaging and relevant to their lives. To keep students from getting overwhelmed, the book focuses first on the most important concepts in each area, such as the Four Basics of the Reading and Writing Process; Four Basics of each rhetorical strategy; the Four Most Serious Errors in the grammar section; and the academic skills of summary, analysis, and synthesis

Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry

Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry
Author: Adrienne Rich
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2018-08-28
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0393355144

A New York Times Critics’ Pick A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous, and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich. Demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision, Essential Essays showcases Adrienne Rich’s singular ability to unite the political, personal, and poetical. The essays selected here by feminist scholar Sandra M. Gilbert range from the 1960s to 2006, emphasizing Rich’s lifelong intellectual engagement and fearless prose exploration of feminism, social justice, poetry, race, homosexuality, and identity.

College Admission Essentials

College Admission Essentials
Author: Ethan Sawyer
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1492678848

You can get into the perfect school! You may think that getting an acceptance letter from selective colleges and universities is a mad dash to the top that only the very best students survive, and those who make it are just the lucky ones. Stress levels soar as it feels like the bar is rising higher and everything is out of your control. But that's not true! You can take control, and you can do it in a way that's as effective as it is empowering. From describing your extracurriculars to interviews with admission officers, it comes down to two questions: What matters most to you? How does it manifest in your life? The answers will give direction to every part of the admission process. Ethan Sawyer (the College Essay Guy), along with dozens of top admission experts, will help you stand out by showing colleges and universities how your values and your drive will change you, your alma mater, and the world. Inside you'll find... Advice and insight from a team of counselors, advisors, and deans of admission Interactive exercises that quickly and easily provide the best content for your application Access to a massive database of online resources, including organizational tools and in-depth guides Guidance for veterans, students with learning differences, LGBTQ+ students, students interested in women's colleges or HBCUs, and more www.collegeessayguy.com