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""Is It Easy Being Green?"", writing the new college application essay, Justin Nevin

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""Is It Easy Being Green?""

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Justin Nevin

writing the new college application essay

More and more universities and colleges are looking beyond grade point averages and standardized test scores to choose their incoming freshman. What criteria do these institutions of higher education use as their litmus test--the college application essay. But will your average high school essay do the job? When competing against thousands of qualified candidates a college applicant needs more than an introduction, three paragraphs, and a conclusion in their writer''s tool belt: they need the skills to stand out from the crowd. ""Is It Easy Being Green?"": Writing the NEW College App

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: The Personal Essay: A Creative Alternative to the Five-Paragraph Essay; What Makes This Book Different; Time Is on My Side; I'm under the Gun; Part I: Essays; Chapter 1: Narrative Essays: The Stories We Tell; Chapter 2: Lyric Essays: Inviting the Reader In; Chapter 3: Fact vs. Truth: What Our Experiences Mean; Chapter 4: Reduction and Style before Content: Making People into Characters and Learning to Leave Material Out; Chapter 5: Campus Narratives, Short Responses, and Non-Narrative Reponses; Part II: TechniquesChapter 6: What Makes the Personal Essay Tick: A Look at Narrative-Lyric BalanceChapter 7: Not Just Another English Essay: Making Space for Creativity in Personal Writing; Breaking the Rules of Academic Writing; In the Moment; A Controlled Start and a Soft Landing; Chapter 8: Maximizing Creativity in the Personal Essay; Fact vs. Truth and Imaginative Language; Reduction; Style before Content; The Litmus Test; Chapter 9: Other Compositional Considerations; A Note on Risk; Avoiding Cliché Essays; Strategies for Word Limits; Meeting Character Limits; Choosing a Title; Campus NarrativesShort Responses and Non-Narrative ResponsesOptional Essays; Some Final Thoughts; Appendices:; A1. Essay Questions You Might See; A2. Strategies for Brainstorming Personal Material; A3. Matching Essays with Applications; A4. Timelines for Applying; A5. Organizational Charts; A6. Teacher Recommendations; A7. Interview with an Ivy League Interviewer; A8. Interview with a Stanford Student-Athlete Alumnus; A9. Easy Being Green Online; Sources Used; About the Contributors; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Notes; Back Cover

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