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Perfect phrases for college application essays
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Publisher
McGraw-Hill
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part 1. Building a Foundation for Writing Your Essay
Chapter 1. Writing the College Application Essay Is a Daunting Task: What to Do About It
Make It a Goal to Trust Your Experience
Chapter 2. A Look at the Application Essay Questions
Help Getting from "Having to Write the Essay" to "Having Written It"
Part 2. Perfect Phrases for Developing and Writing College Application Essays
Chapter 3. Perfect Phrases for Inventorying Experiences That Highlight Your Attributes and Attitudes
Perfect Phrases for Focusing on Significant Personal Achievement
Perfect Phrases for Focusing on Your Interests and How They Shape You
Perfect Phrases for Focusing on Character Traits
Perfect Phrases for Focusing on Your Desires and Goals for the Future
Perfect Phrases for Figuring Out Why You Want to Go to a Particular School
Perfect Phrases for Finding Out What You Will Bring to the School You Enter and to Your Classmates
Perfect Phrases for Addressing Diversity of Experience
Perfect Phrases for Showing the Way You Take Initiative
Perfect Phrases for Showing Your Leadership Qualities
What's Next?
Chapter 4. Perfect Phrases for Significant Experience or Ethical Dilemma Essays
Perfect Phrases for Finding Your Material as You Begin
"This Is a Story About..."
Perfect Phrase: "When I..." for Ethical Dilemma
Perfect Phrases for Gathering More Specific Images from Your Experience
Perfect Phrases for Further Researching Your Experience and Its Meaning
Perfect Phrases for Articulating Where Your Story Is Going in Terms of Insight
Chapter 5. Personal, Local, National, or International Concerns
Perfect Phrases for Mining Your Interest in and Connection to Social and Political Issues
Perfect Phrases for Stating What Your Interest in a Social Issue Means to You
Perfect Phrases for Finding a Larger Picture than Your Initial Entry Point
Perfect Phrases for Citing How You Will Carry Your Interest Forward
Perfect Phrases for Creating a Thesis Statement That Can Guide Writing about Concerns
Chapter 6. Writing about a Person or Creative Work That Has Influenced You
Perfect Phrases for Interviewing Yourself about Those Who Have Influenced You
Perfect Phrases for Involving the Senses to Make the Person Real for the Reader
Perfect Phrases for Helping You Introduce the Essay as You Write about an Important Influence in Your Life
Perfect Phrases for Evoking Particulars about What a Person Did That Was Impressive
Perfect Phrases for Articulating How You Expect to Apply What You Have Learned from This Influence
Perfect Phrases for Creating the Thesis Statement for the Influence Question
Chapter 7. Writing for the Diversity Questions
Perfect Phrases for Getting at the Heart of the Diversity Essay
Perfect Phrases for Putting Culture Clashes on the Page
Perfect Phrases for Describing What You Are Fond Of in Your Culture
Perfect Phrases for Describing Discrimination
Perfect Phrases for Describing How Feeling Like an Outsider Develops Character
Perfect Phrases for Talking about the Value of Cross-Cultural Experience
Perfect Phrases for Talking about How Cross-Cultural Experiences Help One Set Goals
Perfect Phrases for Gathering the Details of Your Diversity Experience
Perfect Phrases for Writing the Diversity Essay Thesis Statement
Chapter 8. Writing on the Topic of Your Choice
Perfect Phrases for Writing about Special Needs or Reasons for Lower-than-Expected School Performance
Perfect Phrases for Writing about an Unconventional High School or Post-High School Educational Experience that Lowered Your Grades
Using the Topic of Your Choice for Writing the "Why This Particular School" Essay
Perfect Phrases for Using the Topic of Your Choice for Writing the "Why This Particular School" Essay
Writing the Thesis Statement for the Topic of Your Choice Option
Chapter 9. A Quick Look at The Common Application Short Answer Question
Perfect Phrases to Help You Assess Your Activities
Perfect Phrases for Opening the 150-Word Essay
Perfect Phrases for Continuing the 150-Word Essay
Chapter 10. Answering Non-Common Application Essay Questions and Supplemental Short Answer Questions
Perfect Phrases for Writing about a Recent Experience to Illustrate That You Are a School's Kind of Candidate
More Types of Supplemental Questions
Perfect Phrases for Focusing on What the Rest of Your Application Does Not Show the Admissions Committee
Perfect Phrases for Revealing Something Quirky about Yourself
Perfect Phrases for Describing Intellectual Interests, Ideas, or Experiences and Why You Find Them Exciting
Perfect Phrases for Writing about Stretching and Thinking in New Ways
Perfect Phrases for Showing Who You Are in a Vivid Manner
Perfect Phrases for Thinking about Things Going Differently
Perfect Phrases for Understanding Short Story Basics
Perfect Phrases for Discussing Risk
Perfect Phrases for Thinking about Unsatisfied Intellectual Passions and How to Use Them for the Greater Good
Perfect Phrases for Evaluating the Design Option
Perfect Phrases for Articulating a Major Project Idea
Perfect Phrases for Describing How You Have Grown and How This Particular College Will Help You Continue to Grow
Perfect Phrases for Describing How You Have Begun Learning Who You Are and How This Specific College Will Help You Continue to Do That
Perfect Phrases for Organizing and Writing about Several Accomplishments and Experiences in One Essay That Show Your Superior Skills and Personality
Perfect Phrases for Showing Your Potential to Contribute
Perfect Phrases for Answering the Obstacles Question
Part 3. Tricks of the Trade for Polished Essays
Chapter 11. On Writing Strong Beginnings, Middles, and Endings
On Openings
Perfect Phrases for Visualizing Moments and Situations
Opening Essays with Direct Speech or a Quote
Perfect Phrases for Helping You Remember Dialogue or Quotes That Could Open an Essay
Opening Essays with Assertions or Facts
Perfect Phrases for Writing Assertions That Open an Essay
On Middles
Perfect Phrases for Making Transitions
Perfect Phrases for Carrying Essays Forward
Additional Perfect Phrases for Carrying Your Essay Forward
On Endings
Questions for Evaluating Your Ending
Chapter 12. Additional Editing and Formatting Tips
Editing and Polishing Your Essay
Common Grammar Errors to Watch For
Perfect Words for Shortening Phrases
Formatting and Uploading Your Essay
Perfect Phrases for Congratulating Yourself and Celebrating
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9780071546034
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