Concise Advice: Jump-Starting Your College Admissions Essays (Second Edition)
Concise Advice: Jump-Starting Your College Admissions Essay is a rare find among the dozens of other essay advice books. It's different in three important ways. First, it has an approach that makes so much sense that we're astonished that no one else has suggested it before. We've heard over and over that a college essay must "show, not tell" when giving a story. The ultimate model of "showing" is a movie script. And Concise Advice demonstrates why movie scripts work in getting you emotionally involved in a story and a main character. All screenplays have a structure which is similar no matter whether the movie is an action thriller or a romantic comedy. And that structure, along with the story wrapped around it, is what draws an audience in. This book talks about the basic components of a screenplay and shows the applicability to college admissions essays. In an essay, the main character is the applicant, and the goal is to write an essay that is memorable and powerful.
The second way that the book is different is that the examples are built in a series of steps so that a student can see exactly how they come about, from thoughts to topics to starting paragraphs to complete polished essays. The way Concise Advice lays out the steps and the process makes it seem like writing a good essay is almost effortless.
And finally, another thing we like is that the book is indeed "concise." It would be about 100 pages in a printed version, and wastes no time in getting right to the point of providing help. Pity the poor students trying to write essays - they are inundated with "advice." From teachers to parents to books and on and on. Where do they start? We think this book would be a great starting place.
Concise Advice also takes many common application prompts and shows some clever tricks for approaching these. The core of the advice seems to be: spend your time writing a good personal statement using the techniques in the book, and adapt that same essay to a wide variety of prompts. Some of the advice is counterintuitive. For example, if a student is faced with the prompt: "Give us an example of a quote which would apply to you and tell us how it applies," Concise Advice suggests a trick: Don't try to think of a quote first and then write an essay around that quote. Take the essay you've already written and Google the word "quote" with some key words from the essay. In seconds, you'll have hundreds of quotes to choose from, all of which apply to that essay.
So, all in all, Concise Advice is an extremely helpful book, and may make the process of writing an essay a lot easier. And the result of using this book will be an essay which, like a movie, will show, not tell, what a great student the writer is.
If you are applying to college, you need this book!
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The second way that the book is different is that the examples are built in a series of steps so that a student can see exactly how they come about, from thoughts to topics to starting paragraphs to complete polished essays. The way Concise Advice lays out the steps and the process makes it seem like writing a good essay is almost effortless.
And finally, another thing we like is that the book is indeed "concise." It would be about 100 pages in a printed version, and wastes no time in getting right to the point of providing help. Pity the poor students trying to write essays - they are inundated with "advice." From teachers to parents to books and on and on. Where do they start? We think this book would be a great starting place.
Concise Advice also takes many common application prompts and shows some clever tricks for approaching these. The core of the advice seems to be: spend your time writing a good personal statement using the techniques in the book, and adapt that same essay to a wide variety of prompts. Some of the advice is counterintuitive. For example, if a student is faced with the prompt: "Give us an example of a quote which would apply to you and tell us how it applies," Concise Advice suggests a trick: Don't try to think of a quote first and then write an essay around that quote. Take the essay you've already written and Google the word "quote" with some key words from the essay. In seconds, you'll have hundreds of quotes to choose from, all of which apply to that essay.
So, all in all, Concise Advice is an extremely helpful book, and may make the process of writing an essay a lot easier. And the result of using this book will be an essay which, like a movie, will show, not tell, what a great student the writer is.
If you are applying to college, you need this book!
Concise Advice: Jump-Starting Your College Admissions Essays (Second Edition)
Concise Advice: Jump-Starting Your College Admissions Essay is a rare find among the dozens of other essay advice books. It's different in three important ways. First, it has an approach that makes so much sense that we're astonished that no one else has suggested it before. We've heard over and over that a college essay must "show, not tell" when giving a story. The ultimate model of "showing" is a movie script. And Concise Advice demonstrates why movie scripts work in getting you emotionally involved in a story and a main character. All screenplays have a structure which is similar no matter whether the movie is an action thriller or a romantic comedy. And that structure, along with the story wrapped around it, is what draws an audience in. This book talks about the basic components of a screenplay and shows the applicability to college admissions essays. In an essay, the main character is the applicant, and the goal is to write an essay that is memorable and powerful.
The second way that the book is different is that the examples are built in a series of steps so that a student can see exactly how they come about, from thoughts to topics to starting paragraphs to complete polished essays. The way Concise Advice lays out the steps and the process makes it seem like writing a good essay is almost effortless.
And finally, another thing we like is that the book is indeed "concise." It would be about 100 pages in a printed version, and wastes no time in getting right to the point of providing help. Pity the poor students trying to write essays - they are inundated with "advice." From teachers to parents to books and on and on. Where do they start? We think this book would be a great starting place.
Concise Advice also takes many common application prompts and shows some clever tricks for approaching these. The core of the advice seems to be: spend your time writing a good personal statement using the techniques in the book, and adapt that same essay to a wide variety of prompts. Some of the advice is counterintuitive. For example, if a student is faced with the prompt: "Give us an example of a quote which would apply to you and tell us how it applies," Concise Advice suggests a trick: Don't try to think of a quote first and then write an essay around that quote. Take the essay you've already written and Google the word "quote" with some key words from the essay. In seconds, you'll have hundreds of quotes to choose from, all of which apply to that essay.
So, all in all, Concise Advice is an extremely helpful book, and may make the process of writing an essay a lot easier. And the result of using this book will be an essay which, like a movie, will show, not tell, what a great student the writer is.
If you are applying to college, you need this book!
The second way that the book is different is that the examples are built in a series of steps so that a student can see exactly how they come about, from thoughts to topics to starting paragraphs to complete polished essays. The way Concise Advice lays out the steps and the process makes it seem like writing a good essay is almost effortless.
And finally, another thing we like is that the book is indeed "concise." It would be about 100 pages in a printed version, and wastes no time in getting right to the point of providing help. Pity the poor students trying to write essays - they are inundated with "advice." From teachers to parents to books and on and on. Where do they start? We think this book would be a great starting place.
Concise Advice also takes many common application prompts and shows some clever tricks for approaching these. The core of the advice seems to be: spend your time writing a good personal statement using the techniques in the book, and adapt that same essay to a wide variety of prompts. Some of the advice is counterintuitive. For example, if a student is faced with the prompt: "Give us an example of a quote which would apply to you and tell us how it applies," Concise Advice suggests a trick: Don't try to think of a quote first and then write an essay around that quote. Take the essay you've already written and Google the word "quote" with some key words from the essay. In seconds, you'll have hundreds of quotes to choose from, all of which apply to that essay.
So, all in all, Concise Advice is an extremely helpful book, and may make the process of writing an essay a lot easier. And the result of using this book will be an essay which, like a movie, will show, not tell, what a great student the writer is.
If you are applying to college, you need this book!
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| ISBN-13: | 9780974386737 |
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| Publisher: | Arasian |
| Publication date: | 01/01/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 127 |
| File size: | 177 KB |
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