Free eBook: Escape Essay Hell!: A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Narrative College Application Essays [Kindle Edition]

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 "slice-of-life" 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 (e.g. University of California Prompt 2), private college, supplemental, graduate school, transfer 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!
Janine recently published a collection of sample essays, called Heavenly Essays: 50 Narrative College Application essays, which is the perfect companion guide to Escape Essay Hell. Almost all the students who shared their personal statement essays in this collection followed the writing steps and techniques Janine outlined in Escape Essay Hell. And they all landed in outstanding colleges.
(For more help on how to spin topics for specific prompts, check out Janine's other helpful updated guide: Essay Hell's 2014-15 Prompts Primer: Strategies for The Common App, UC and Other College Application Essays.)