The Resource Write your way in : crafting an unforgettable college admissions essay, Rachel Toor
Write your way in : crafting an unforgettable college admissions essay, Rachel Toor
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The item Write your way in : crafting an unforgettable college admissions essay, Rachel Toor represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Write your way in : crafting an unforgettable college admissions essay, Rachel Toor represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- For all the anxiety that surrounds the college admissions process, one part of the application lies completely within a student s control: the essay. In this book, Rachel Toor writing instructor and coach at all levels from high school to senior faculty, and former admissions officer at Duke University shows that the key to writing a successful application essay is learning to present an honest portrait of yourself
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 169 pages
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Contents
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- Introduction: the quest for the special secret sauce
- What you need to know before you start writing. Steal, steal, steal: learning to read like a writer ; Craft your "I": thinking of yourself as a character ; Sex, drugs, and Palestinian statehood: finding a topic ; AMANDA + JIM ; Aboutness: an essay is often about something other than what it's about ; ADAM FINDS HIS PIRATES ; The hole in the donut: writing about the hardest thing ; Tell us about your world in two hundred words: The short answers ; EMMA'S SHORTIES
- Getting it down on the page and then cleaning it up. Shitty first drafts: the importance of allowing yourself to write badly ; Seeing again: revision means re-vision ; Don't try to hook the reader like a trout: the opening lines ; PEYTON'S ANKLE ; Danger! Some moves not to make ; Semicolons are like loaded guns: mechanics matter ; My little bag of writing tricks: some tips
- Conclusion: getting it done
- Isbn
- 9780226383897
- Label
- Write your way in : crafting an unforgettable college admissions essay
- Title
- Write your way in
- Title remainder
- crafting an unforgettable college admissions essay
- Statement of responsibility
- Rachel Toor
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- For all the anxiety that surrounds the college admissions process, one part of the application lies completely within a student s control: the essay. In this book, Rachel Toor writing instructor and coach at all levels from high school to senior faculty, and former admissions officer at Duke University shows that the key to writing a successful application essay is learning to present an honest portrait of yourself
- Cataloging source
- ICU/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Toor, Rachel
- Dewey number
- 378.1/616
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- LB2351.5
- LC item number
- .T66 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- College applications
- Universities and colleges
- Creative writing
- Essay
- Label
- Write your way in : crafting an unforgettable college admissions essay, Rachel Toor
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: the quest for the special secret sauce -- What you need to know before you start writing. Steal, steal, steal: learning to read like a writer ; Craft your "I": thinking of yourself as a character ; Sex, drugs, and Palestinian statehood: finding a topic ; AMANDA + JIM ; Aboutness: an essay is often about something other than what it's about ; ADAM FINDS HIS PIRATES ; The hole in the donut: writing about the hardest thing ; Tell us about your world in two hundred words: The short answers ; EMMA'S SHORTIES -- Getting it down on the page and then cleaning it up. Shitty first drafts: the importance of allowing yourself to write badly ; Seeing again: revision means re-vision ; Don't try to hook the reader like a trout: the opening lines ; PEYTON'S ANKLE ; Danger! Some moves not to make ; Semicolons are like loaded guns: mechanics matter ; My little bag of writing tricks: some tips -- Conclusion: getting it done
- Control code
- ocn965617463
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 169 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226383897
- Lccn
- 2016053327
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)965617463
- Label
- Write your way in : crafting an unforgettable college admissions essay, Rachel Toor
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: the quest for the special secret sauce -- What you need to know before you start writing. Steal, steal, steal: learning to read like a writer ; Craft your "I": thinking of yourself as a character ; Sex, drugs, and Palestinian statehood: finding a topic ; AMANDA + JIM ; Aboutness: an essay is often about something other than what it's about ; ADAM FINDS HIS PIRATES ; The hole in the donut: writing about the hardest thing ; Tell us about your world in two hundred words: The short answers ; EMMA'S SHORTIES -- Getting it down on the page and then cleaning it up. Shitty first drafts: the importance of allowing yourself to write badly ; Seeing again: revision means re-vision ; Don't try to hook the reader like a trout: the opening lines ; PEYTON'S ANKLE ; Danger! Some moves not to make ; Semicolons are like loaded guns: mechanics matter ; My little bag of writing tricks: some tips -- Conclusion: getting it done
- Control code
- ocn965617463
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 169 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226383897
- Lccn
- 2016053327
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)965617463
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