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WRITING AN OUTSTANDING COLLEGE APPLICATION ESSAY WITH ARUN ALAGAPPAN, Founder & Director, Advantage Testing • August 18, 2020
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R e c o m m e n d e d R e a d i n g L i s t COLLEGE APPLICATION ESSAY
Books About Writing College Essays
Inspirational Books About Writing The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present selected and introduced by Phillip Lopate
100 Successful College Application Essays compiled and edited by the Staff of the Harvard Independent
Real College Essays that Work
To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction by Phillip Lopate On Writing Well: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
by Edward Fiske and Bruce Hammond
College Essay Essentials by Ethan Sawyer
The College Application Essay by Sarah Myers McGinty
The Elements of Style
by William Strunk, Jr. E.B. White, et al .
On Writing the College Application Essay by Harry Bauld
Draft No. 4
by John McPhee
50 Successful University of California Application Essays compiled by Gen and Kelly Tanabe How to Write a Winning College Application Essay by Michael James Mason
The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
The Art of the College Essay by Gabrielle Glancy
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Essays that Worked for College Applications edited by Boykin Curry and Brian Kasbar
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
The College Essay Trap by Cassie Nichols
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
Write Your Way In by Rachel Toor
Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story by Ursula K. LeGuin
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