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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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