Escape Essay Hell!: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Narrative College Application Essays

by Janine Robinson

Overview

Escape Essay Hell! is a fast-and-easy guide to writing narrative-style essays for college application essays. Janine Robinson, an English teacher and professional writer who has tutored college-bound students on these essays for years, acts as a personal writing coach to guide and cheer students through this dreaded process.
College admissions experts tell students to "Tell a story," or "Make the essay about you!," or "Be an individual." And this is all correct. But no one ever explains exactly HOW they can do this. Until now.
In her motivating guide, Janine takes students through 10 simple steps to find engaging topics and then craft compelling essays using storytelling writing techniques. Students will learn how to identify their unique defining qualities, write engaging mini-stories called anecdotes, and use a powerful Show and Tell writing formula.
Escape Essay Hell! can help students write personal statements and respond to prompts for The Common Application, public university, private college, supplemental, graduate school and scholarship essays.
By following these informative and inspiring steps, students will escape Essay Hell in no time at all--and have their best shot at landing in their dream school!
(For more help on how to spin topics for specific prompts, check out Janine's other helpful guide: "Essay Hell's 2013-14 Prompts Primer: Strategies for The Common App, UC and Other College Application Essays.")

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149283774
Publisher:	Janine Robinson
Publication date:	04/02/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	75
File size:	884 KB

About the Author

Janine Robinson is a freelance writer, editor and teacher from Laguna Beach, California, who coaches college-bound students on their college application essays. Over the past couple decades, she has worked as a staff reporter for top newspapers, including The Miami Herald and The Orange County Register. She also was the editor of a monthly lifestyle magazine for women in Orange County, California, and worked as an editor for several Internet-based education and news sites, including Entrepreneur Media. Currently, Janine is the editor of a luxury lifestyle magazine called Pelican Hill Magazine, based in Newport Beach, CA. She also earned a teaching credential for high school English.

Janine shares advice and tips on how to write personal narratives on her popular blog, Essay Hell, where she helps students learn to craft stand-out application essays for college or scholarship applications. Although she does not take credit for their success, almost all of her students land in their top-choice schools.

When she's not working on the computer in her garage-based office, she loves to hike, surf, go birding, do yoga, toil in her veggie garden, hit the flea markets, test out new vegan dishes and work on her newly acquired vintage fiberglass "egg" camper.