Write Your Way In: Crafting an Unforgettable College Admissions Essay

✍ Scribed by Toor, Rachel

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Series: Chicago guides to writing editing and publishing
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Introduction: The Quest for the Special Secret Sauce; Part One. What You Need to Know Before You Start Writing; 1: Steal, Steal, Steal: Learning to Read like a Writer; 2: Craft Your "I": Thinking of Yourself as a Character; 3: Sex, Drugs, and Palestinian Statehood: Finding a Topic; Amanda + Jim; 4: Aboutness: An Essay Is Often About Something Other Than What It's About; Adam Finds His Pirates; 5: The Hole in the Donut: Saying the Hardest Thing; 6: Tell Us About Your World in Two Hundred Words: The Short Answers; Emma's Shorties.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction: The Quest for the Special Secret Sauce
Part One. What You Need to Know Before You Start Writing
1: Steal, Steal, Steal: Learning to Read like a Writer
2: Craft Your "I": Thinking of Yourself as a Character
3: Sex, Drugs, and Palestinian Statehood: Finding a Topic
Amanda + Jim
4: Aboutness: An Essay Is Often About Something Other Than What It's About
Adam Finds His Pirates
5: The Hole in the Donut: Saying the Hardest Thing
6: Tell Us About Your World in Two Hundred Words: The Short Answers
Emma's Shorties. Part Two. Getting It Down on the Page and Then Cleaning It Up7: Shitty First Drafts: The Importance of Allowing Yourself to Write Badly
8: Seeing Again: Revision Means Re-Vision
9: Don't Try to Hook the Reader like a Trout: Opening Lines
Peyton's Ankle
10: Danger! Some Moves Not to Make
11: Semicolons Are like Loaded Guns: Mechanics Matter
12: My Little Bag of Writing Tricks: Some Tips
Conclusion: Getting It Done
Acknowledgments.

✦ Subjects

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