From college admissions and advising experts, Corinne Smith and Ann Merrell, comes a Mindful ManualTM to help you navigate the college essay. Thinking about the future and what you will accomplish in college and beyond is an exciting and thrilling endeavor. Yet, when it comes to college applications, often the most daunting task lies in writing the essays. With all the twists and turns of the college admissions process, writing your story should not be the most overwhelming and intimidating part of the journey. Equipped with the College Essay Journal, you will become better prepared, focused, and organized as you begin applying to various colleges and universities. Infused with multiple positive and mindful techniques, the College Essay Journal helps to: * Gather application content and brainstorm essay topics that are important to you * Build the foundation of your essays by encouraging you to examine and share aspects of your identity, values, and goals through guided prompts * Slow down the process to allow for true reflection and deep thinking * And much more The College Essay Journal is a game-changer. This 30-day Mindful ManualTM is essential in helping to craft an exceptional and authentic college application.

Strategies from a noted educational consultant on how to ease the pressure, ace the essay, and gain admission into your top-choice school Getting into college has become fiercely competitive, which makes the personal-essay part of the application process even more important–and stressful. But stop worrying! In Write Your College Essay in Less Than a Day, Elizabeth Wissner-Gross–a top educational strategist in this area who counsels students at schools across the country–breaks down the harrowing ordeal of essay writing into manageable steps, leaving you with a fresh, polished, stand-out piece that admissions officers will love to read. Inside you’ll find • exercises to help you select an essay topic inspired by your most notable achievements–and winning a Nobel Prize needn’t be one of them • timed chapters (including snack breaks) to help you brainstorm, create, and critique your essay in only five hours • sample essays and grading criteria so that you can play the admissions officer–and know what you’re up against • advice on which writing techniques will score you points–and which could potentially sink your chances Accessible, savvy, and written with a student’s needs and concerns in mind, Write Your College Essay in Less Than a Day gives you all the tools you need to compose an original, professional essay that will help you turn your dream school into a well-deserved reality.

This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies

You're about to finish high school, looking forward to the new journey where you really can begin defining your life, its direction, and fulfillment. You may experience moments with complete excitement and nervousness; other moments might consist of exhaustion--after all, you've just finished twelve years of schooling, and now you are facing more years of education. With that higher education comes applying to colleges and the college admission essay. In 5 Key Steps to Writing the College Admission Essay, author Dr. Mitali Chaudhery presents a hands-on guide to help you compose a thoughtful, organized, mature, and well-written college application essay. It provides the major steps in preparing, constructing, developing, and refining the essay and leads you through each step with recommendations, strategies, and visualizations of your journey to write the unique, original, and befitting essay for each college of your choice. 5 Key Steps to Writing the College Admission Essay offers a concise but comprehensive guide to writing the college application essay while imparting the importance of hard work, including scheduling enough time, finding a meaningful and impactful theme, and polishing the writing.

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Changing the Way We Teach: Writing and Resistance in the Training of Teaching Assistants draws on eighteen case studies to illustrate the critical role writing plays in overcoming graduate student resistance to instruction, facilitating change, and developing professional identity. Sally Barr Ebest argues that teaching assistants in English must be actively engaged in the theory and practice underlying composition pedagogy in order to better understand how to alter the way they teach and why such change is necessary. In illustrating the potential for change when the paradigm shift in composition is applied to graduate education, Ebest considers recent discussions of composition pedagogy; post-secondary teaching theories; cognitive, social cognitive, and educational psychology; and issues of gender, voice, and writing. Stemming from research conducted over a five-year period, this volume explores how a cross-section of teaching assistants responded to pedagogy as students and how their acceptance of pedagogy affected their performance as instructors. Investigating reasons behind manifestations of resistance and necessary elements for overcoming it, Ebest finds that engagement in composition strategies-- reflective writing, journaling, drafting, and active learning-- and restoration of feelings of self-efficacy are the primary factors that facilitate change. Concerned with gender as it relates to personal construct, Changing the Way We Teach traces the influence of familial expectations and the effects of literacy experiences on students and draws correlations between feminist and composition pedagogy. Ebest asserts that the phenomena contributing to the development of a strong, unified voice in women-- self-knowledge, empathy, positive role models, and mentors-- should be essential elements of a constructivist graduate curriculum. To understand composition pedagogy and to convince students of its values, Ebest holds that educators must embrace it themselves and trace the effects through active research. By providing graduate students with pedagogical sites for research and reflection, faculty enable them to express their anger or fear, study its sources, and quite often write their way to a new understanding.

There are so many books on so many aspects of the history of the United States, offering such a wide variety of interpretations, that students, teachers, scholars, and librarians often need help and advice on how to find what they want. The Reader's Guide to American History is designed to meet that need by adopting a new and constructive approach to the appreciation of this rich historiography. Each of the 600 entries on topics in political, social and economic history describes and evaluates some 6 to 12 books on the topic, providing guidance to the reader on everything from broad surveys and interpretive works to specialized monographs. The entries are devoted to events and individuals, as well as broader themes, and are written by a team of well over 200 contributors, all scholars of American history.