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Author and educator Laura Torres provides a one-stop guide to preparing secondary and homeschooled students for college-level writing. This handbook covers the five most common types of essays: narrative, compare/contrast, summary/response, argumentative, research.

"The 25th- anniversary edition of this best-selling guide gives students simple strategies to maximize the opportunity to "tell us about yourself." Updated to reflect the experience college applicants face today, this book provides a clear path to an essay that says, "Pick me!""--Provided by publisher.

"This book is a handy, readable manual, which deals with the practical problems students face when writing their college admission essays"--

"Provides 30 complete winning scholarship essays with analysis of why they were successful, scholarship interview strategies, Q&A with scholarship judges, 12 essays that bombed and an essay-writing workshop that covers selecting a topic, creating an outline, writing and editing"--

Updated with much new material, this book presents approximately 50 model college admission essays that will inspire students who must prepare original essays of their own as part of today's college entrance process. Students will also find extensive advice on the do?s and don?ts for writing a successful essay plus instruction on the process of organizing ideas, writing a rough draft, then re-writing a final finished essay for presentation. The book's...

Explains the purpose of argument, and tells how to analyze arguments, understand one's audience, and write an evaluation, proposal, or oral presentation.