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Write your way in

crafting an unforgettable college admissions essay

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Rachel Toor, Rachel Toor
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Write Your Way In: Crafting an Unforgettable College Admissions Essay
2017, University of Chicago Press
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Write Your Way In: Crafting an Unforgettable College Admissions Essay
Aug 03, 2017, University of Chicago Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Series
Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing

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Dewey Decimal Class
378.1/616
Library of Congress
LB2351.5 .T66 2017, LB2351.5.T66 2017

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Pagination
169 pages
Number of pages
169

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26932869M
ISBN 10
022638389X
ISBN 13
9780226383897
LCCN
2016053327
OCLC/WorldCat
965617463

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