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How to Write a College Application Essay: Some Final Thoughts

By Tania Runyan 1 Comment

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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.

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

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.

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

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.

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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).

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

By Tania Runyan 7 Comments

Teenage Blonds How to Write a College Essay

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

Art Education & Theory: Draw Me a Cursive Tree

By Sara Barkat 13 Comments

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Could art education be purposely linked to cursive writing? One artist aims to find out.

Filed Under: Art Education & Theory, Blog, Creative Non-Fiction, Student Writing

The House Tells a Story

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

The story we need to hear now is how it happened. Its origin. Its cause. The ruins of a family’s home becomes a storyteller over the next eight hours.

Filed Under: Blog, Creative Non-Fiction

How to Become a Better Writer: Blue Artist Date

By Robert McCready 2 Comments

Robert McCready knows how to become a better writer when he heads out on an Artist Date and finds the blues.

Filed Under: Artist Date, Blog, Creative Non-Fiction

Memoir Notebook: Through the Hands of Strangers

By Anthony Connolly 6 Comments

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Our Memoir Notebook feature will give you thoughts on aesthetics and craft, but it will feel like poetic narrative. And sometimes it will simply be poetic narrative. Come away with us and Wm. Anthony Connolly to the beach, for a last bit of summer.

Filed Under: Blog, Creative Non-Fiction, Memoir Notebook

Memoir Notebook: Elements of Style

By Anthony Connolly 6 Comments

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Memoir Notebook is a monthly column dedicated to longer creative non-fiction works. Today, Wm. Anthony Connolly is cutting onions. Or is he?

Filed Under: Blog, Creative Non-Fiction, Memoir Notebook, writer's group resources

Memoir Notebook: Iowa Creative Non-Fiction Conference

By Anthony Connolly 15 Comments

Memoir Cigarette

Memoir Notebook is a new monthly (sometimes more) column. Today, to the Iowa Creative Non-Fiction Conference. Or maybe to the blind man on the street.

Filed Under: Blog, Creative Non-Fiction, Memoir Notebook, Writer's Conferences, writer's group resources

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