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Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays

Product DescriptionBecoming a writer is a journey, and Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays will serve as your students’ guidebook every step of the way. Emphasizing both process and practice, with a focus on revision, this text will help students apply … Continue reading

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The Best American Essays of the Century

Product DescriptionThis singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America”s tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists. Joyce Carol Oates has collected a group of works that … Continue reading

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Essays That Will Get You into Medical School

Product DescriptionThis updated volume offers vital help to college students who are applying to medical school and are required to write a medical school admissions essay. Extensive advice covers the many do’s and don’ts of writing a successful essay. The … Continue reading

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Classic Essays on Photography

Product DescriptionContaining 30 essays that embody the history of photography, this collection includes contributions from Niepce, Daguerre, Fox, Talbot, Poe, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, and Weston, among others…. More >> Classic Essays on Photography

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Real Essays with Readings with 2009 MLA Update: Writing Projects for College, Work, and Everyday Life

Product DescriptionReal Essays with Readings is the essay-level book in Susan Anker’s highly successful series of writing texts that motivate students with their message that writing is an essential skill in college and in real life — and that this … Continue reading

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The Writer’s World: Paragraphs and Essays

Product DescriptionWhether your students enroll in the course with varying skill levels, whether they are native or nonnative speakers of English, or whether they learn better through the use of visuals, The Writer’s World can help students with varying needs … Continue reading

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65 Successful Harvard Business School Application Essays, Second Edition: With Analysis by the Staff of The Harbus, the Harvard Business School Newspaper

Product DescriptionYOUR LIFE . . . IN 300 WORDS OR LESSIt’s a daunting task. Even the most seasoned professionals find business school application essays to be among the hardest pieces they ever write. With a diverse pool of talented people … Continue reading

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Essays

Product Description “Full of what you might call conversation starters: tricky propositions about morality… politics, privilege, runaway nationalist fantasies, collective guilt, and art as a force for change (or not)…It’s a treat to hear him speak his curious mind.”—O Magazine … Continue reading

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50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, Second Edition: What Worked for Them Can Help You Get into the College of Your Choice

Product DescriptionYou’ve been told a million times how selective and random the college process is, how the personal essay is your one chance to speak directly to admissions officers and sway them in your favor.  You have to be entertaining, persuasive, … Continue reading

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The Best American Essays 2009

Product Description Edited by award-winning poet and essayist Mary Oliver, the latest edition of this “rich and thoughtful collection” (Publishers Weekly) offers the finest essays “judiciously selected from countless publications” (Chicago Tribune). … More >> The Best American Essays 2009

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