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Totally Great Tips for Your College Essay—Interview With An Expert!

By L.L. Barkat 1 Comment

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What’s the biggest mistake students make when starting to write their college application essay? Get the surprising answer, plus great essay tips, so you can write the best college app essay ever!

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Applying to College in the Fall? Do These 7 Things this Summer

By Tania Runyan 4 Comments

Getting ready to apply for college? Tania Runyan has 7 things you can do to get yourself ready to choose a college and write your application essay.

Filed Under: Blog, College, How to Write a College Application Essay

How to Write a College Application Essay: Some Final Thoughts

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Tania Runyan offers some final thoughts about maintaining perspective in this last installment of our series about writing a college application essay.

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How to Write a College Application Essay: Revising, Editing, and Proofreading

By Tania Runyan 5 Comments

Once a draft of the college application essay is written, now it’s time for revising, editing, and proofing. Tania Runyan explains how.

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How to Write a College Application Essay: Starting to Write

By Tania Runyan 4 Comments

Tania Runyan uses a few familiar writing techniques to help students who are starting to write their college application essay.

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How to Write a College Application Essay: Choosing a Topic

By Tania Runyan 6 Comments

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Tania Runyan gives students an idea of the types of questions they may encounter when choosing a topic for their college application essay—including a list of the current Common App questions.

Filed Under: Blog, College, Creative Non-Fiction, English Teaching Resources, How to Write a College Application Essay

How to Write a College Application Essay: A Closer Look at a Winning Application

By Tania Runyan 4 Comments

This time, we’re going to take a look at how a young man made the most of my College Essay Yes-Yes’s in his own winning application.

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How to Write a College Application Essay: So What Kind of Writing Is This?

By Tania Runyan 6 Comments

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Tania Runyan offers guidelines for how to write a college application essay, including some no-no’s (and yes-yes’s).

Filed Under: Blog, College, Creative Non-Fiction, English Teaching Resources, How to Write a College Application Essay

How to Write a College Application Essay: What’s it All About?

By Tania Runyan 7 Comments

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Amidst all the data surrounding grades and test scores and class ranking, Tania Runyan assures us the college essay is a chance to just be yourself. Isn’t that a relief?

Filed Under: Blog, College, Creative Non-Fiction, English Teaching Resources, How to Write a College Application Essay

How to Write a College Application Essay: An Introduction

By Tania Runyan 9 Comments

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Introducing the How to Write a College Application Essay series, Tania Runyan assures us that poetry and personal statements aren’t too far off.

Filed Under: Blog, College, Creative Non-Fiction, English Teaching Resources, How to Write a College Application Essay

How to Beat Writer’s Block by Not Giving Up

By Charity Singleton Craig 14 Comments

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What feels like writer’s block might just be giving up too soon. Charity Singleton Craig challenges writers to use persistence toward better creativity.

Filed Under: Blog, College, Creativity, Writing Life, Writing Tips

Follow Your Passion, Don’t Follow Your Passion & Other Master Narratives to Avoid

By Charity Singleton Craig 18 Comments

Follow Your Passion

Follow your passion, don’t follow your passion. The advice is changing day to day. Charity Singleton Craig considers which route is best.

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Letters to a Young Editor—How to Use College the Best Way You Can

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Marietta College Andrews Hall Become an Editor Why Go to College

How can you use college to someday become a great editor? (If you’re already out of college, these tips will still apply.)

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