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How to
Wr ite Your
College
Application
Essay
Second Edition
Kenneth A. Nourse
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DOI: 10.1036/0071394664
 
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Contents
About the Author
v
Acknowledgments
vi
Introduction
vii
1 Why Colleges Require an Application Essay
1
Getting to Know You
2
Avoiding the Guessing Game
2
Standing Out in the Crowd
3
Conditioning Your Mind
3
2 The Essay as an Application Component
7
Orderliness
8
Originality
9
3 How Much the Essay Counts
11
4 What an Application Essay Is
15
Defining an Essay
15
Expressing Yourself
17
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Contents
Keeping Your Essay Brief
18
Elements of an Essay
19
The Range of Topics
21
5 Choosing Your Topic
25
Thinking About You r O p t i on s
2 6
Preparing Yourself
27
A Sample Essay
29
6 Getting Psyched
33
Avoiding Procrastination
34
How to Make an Outline
34
Building Self-Esteem
36
Be Yourself
38
7 The Ultimate Crutch:
The Five-Paragraph Theme
43
8 Proofreading Your Essay
47
9 A Potpourri of Essays
51
10 The Ultimate Falsehood
73
11 What the Pros Think
83
Appendix Advisories
116
Positive
116
Negative
117
Afterword
119
Communicating Clearly
119
 

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