College Writing

You have five minutes and 500 words to capture the attention of the college admissions staff member reading your essay. How do you share your story in a meaningful and interesting way? By learning the three key components to Crafting the Perfect College Essay. In this book, author and certified life coach, Martina E. Faulkner, LMSW, shares her top tips – and secret formula – on how to write your best college essay, or other short-format writing. After spending years helping high school (and college) students improve their writing, Faulkner began presenting her unique method in a local ...

College Sunrise is a vaguely disreputable finishing school in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he works, somewhat falteringly, on his novel. Into his creative writing class comes 17-year-old Chris Wiley, a literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress, on Mary Queen of Scots and the murder of her husband Lord Darnley, has already excited the interest of publishers.

A fast-paced supernatural thrill ride filled with demonic villains set in the heart of South Florida! My name is Patrick Bannon, and I'm a demonologist. Most people would agree that the study of demons isn’t a practical area of research. Lucky for me, Miami has never been a practical kind of city. With more reported cases of demonic possession than any other two cities combined, the jewel of South Florida can be a dangerous place for those who don’t respect it, and when trouble strikes, it falls to me to set it right. Now a renowned Catholic reverend is dead, and the church wants to ...

Communicating in Written English: A Guide to Prepare for College Level Reading and Writing bridges the gap for students who are starting their first year in college after many years absent from the classroom. This easy guide provides tips for reading analysis, sentence structure, punctuation, writing composition, essay construction, common mistakes made by freshman college students, and general advice for your freshman composition course. This is the perfect jumpstart to ensure your readiness for English 101.

Nic Chen refuses to spend her senior year branded as the girl who cheated on her charismatic and lovable boyfriend. To redefine her reputation among her Ivy League-obsessed classmates, Nic begins writing their college-admissions essays. But the more essays Nic writes for other people, the less sure she becomes of herself, the kind of person she is, and whether her moral compass even points north anymore.

The study guide has many excellent essays and examples on • Invention and Outline Examples • Analysis of Persuasion in Advertising Example • Field-Based Solutions, arguments and conclusions based on interviews and observations • APA Research Paper • An Argumentative Paper Taking a Position on an Issue (Chicago Manual (CM) Research Paper) • An essay to nominate a film. Why should your chosen film be the one shown? • Critical Book Review

This book utilizes a step-by-step process for simplified writing of academic essays. It discusses essay building blocks (paragraphs, topic sentences, and supporting details), patterns of development (cause and effect, comparison and contrast, definition, illustration/exemplification, and narration), introduction, body, and conclusion. It also details the writing process from start to finish, including ways to generate essay ideas. It is full of examples and activities to help the reader learn and progress.

Romantic Secrets (Book One) Abby likes sex but has never had an orgasm. She wants to fall in love but knows she never will. That kind of luck doesn't happen to a girl like her...a girl from a hardscrabble past and a heart that's grown a protective shell. When Abby arrives in New York for her cousin Emma's funeral, she hopes to leave the past behind and start a whole new life. She meets Isabella, her cousin's former roommate, who provides a reference to Miss White, the imposing madam who runs a high-class escort agency. Soon, Abby is propelled into a whole new life of money, glamour, and sex...

This ultimate essay writing guide will help you with every step of the essay writing process, from narrowing down a good title to writing thoughtful, structured body paragraphs. Bookmark our helpful guides throughout the book to keep as your own personal reference chart while you write every essay, paper, or assignment in your academic career. With our help, you'll turn in an A+ paper!

It’s the New Normal for academics. Students are different, classes are different, promotion is different, even parking on campus is different. But, you need to be a productive academic in the New Normal, and you need a guidebook on how to do it. Professor Tim Slater knows how, and in this guidebook for New Normal academics, he’ll teach you how. Author of 26 books, more than a hundred peer reviewed journal articles, awardee of nearly $30M in grants, and winner of numerous academic awards, Dr. Slater is an expert in academic time management. In this short guide, he’ll teach you how to ...

This Guide includes suggestions for writing a variety of essays--the Florida Standards Assessment English Language Arts Essay, the New SAT Essay (2016), the AP English Language and Composition Essays, the Evaluative Essay, the Narrative Essay/College Essay, and more. The Guide provides step-by-step writing instructions and rubrics, as well as strategies to become a more proficient reader. This book is helpful for both educators and students. James Mulhern has taught for thirty years in a variety of settings, including college, high school, middle school, and alternative environments. He is ...

If you are like most students, college admissions essays push you into the scary, uncharted territory of writing about yourself. It doesn’t help that you feel unprepared to craft this unfamiliar type of personal essay or that you also feel incredible pressure to make it perfect. But there’s still time to learn—and ace it! The Writing Survival Kit will prepare you to write a killer essay using a toolkit of powerful narrative writing techniques. If you can tell your real-life stories, you will engage your readers and reveal your personality, talents, skills, character, intellectual ...

Fast, fun, and hilarious! For fans of Judd Apatow, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, and Paul Rudd. College theater geeks, Chad and Eric, are about to find themselves in the mother of all love triangles. Eric's the playwright of an edgy new play about a man's strange obsession. But when Chad lands the lead role, a gorgeous thirty-something student named Kira is cast as his mother. Will this sexy "older woman" threaten Chad and Eric's longtime bromance? With hysterical twists and turns, the "man code" will be tested as Chad and Eric handle confrontation with humor that's spiked with testosterone. ...

The seventh book in the Matthew Diggerson Mystery series, Read to Me involves "Digger" reading his own book to his wife, Anna, who seems bedridden--why? A mystery within a mystery, this story introduces Digger's protagonist, Billy D Wilder, along with new villains and a new dog, Snowy the Chihuahua.

What if your writing assignments could be not just easy but fun? They can be, once you learn how to take charge of your education and write in a low-stress way that works for you. This book takes you through the stages of the writing process, using game mechanics, cooperation, and learning styles to help you have as much fun as possible while knocking your papers out of the park. This text focuses on the big-picture elements that matter most in both college papers and real-world writing situations, all with an eye toward enjoyment.

Book 4 in the Matthew Diggerson Mysteries series: this story takes place a year after "Marked for Murder" ended.

This book is for the millions of parents of all races who are not born into the silver spoon crowd; who know enough to want their child to earn more to have a better life than they did, who seek practical advice regarding how to get academic and economic liftoff for their children. The author, David M. Ramirez, J.D. has the credentials and the real life experience to give no baloney “road tested” “no fluff” expert advice on this subject that really works. The author just finished [2016-2017) turning around the adult prison school at Folsom State Prison which was truly floundering, ...

Conquer the SAT Reading and Writing: Your Key to Academic Success is a comprehensive guide designed to help students excel in the Reading and Writing section of the SAT. The book covers essential strategies for mastering the exam, from understanding the test format to improving grammar, sentence structure, and reading comprehension. It emphasizes critical reading skills, inference-based questions, and evidence-based answers, teaching students how to tackle various types of passages, including literary, historical, and scientific texts. The guide also focuses on building clarity in writing, ...

The book on essays is for you if you prefer to learn by example rather than explanation or direction. The learning method is unique because it focuses on showing you, rather than telling you, how to write an essay. Fifteen different types of essays are defined and exemplified using five-paragraph mini-essays. The examples are for Analytical, Argumentative, Cause, Comparison and Contrast, Critical Analysis, Definition (Specific), Definition (Subjective), Descriptive, Effect, Expository, Illustration/exemplification, Narration, Persuasive, Process (Information), and Process (Direction) type ...

This book helps writers improve their spelling and understanding of word usage. Tips for improving spelling are provided along with basic spelling rules that can be used for a wide variety of writing applications. Commonly confused words are listed, defined, and exemplified in an easy to follow format. This document is a “must have” resource for successful writing at all levels!