Practical Advice for Students and Parents
Focusing on college admissions essays, this guide offers practical advice and tips for students. It suggests suitable topics while emphasizing the importance of writing approach, grammar, and usage. By following its guidance, applicants can create essays that stand out as readable, noteworthy, and unique, enhancing their chances of success in the admissions process.
Exploring the profound connection between art and emotion, this book delves into how pain serves as a catalyst for creativity in the life of painter and poet Paul Weingarten. It highlights the role of intense feelings—such as melancholy, anxiety, and anger—in driving artistic expression and the quest for solace. Through Weingarten's perspective, readers are invited to understand how sentiment shapes the creative process and the importance of communicating the complexities of human experience.
"This book is a handy, readable manual, which deals with the practical problems students face when writing their college admission essays"--