84 Best Essay Writing Books of All Time

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera

5.0
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places; brilliant and playful reflections; and a variety of styles to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of
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I wasn’t expecting anything going into it, but I am currently quite engrossed by Kundera’s understanding of humanity and his beautiful writing style. [source]

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The Writing Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Writers

Jennifer Serravallo

5.0
The Reading Strategies Book made the New York Times Best Seller List by making it simpler to match students' needs to high-quality instruction. Now, in The Writing Strategies Book, Jen Serravallo does the same, collecting 300 of the most effective strategies to share with writers, and grouping them beneath 10 crucial goals.

"You can think of the goals as the what, "writes Jen, "and the strategies
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So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo

5.0
Preview Summary
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America
Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans--has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about. How do you tell your roommate her jokes are racist? Why did you
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Imani Gandy Corn

I’m not really kidding. Ijeoma’s book is great for white people—because seriously, get a clue—but it’s also great for Black people who are sick and tired of trying to talk about race with clueless white people and end up frustrated and wanting to stab everything in sight. [source]

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Mike Monteiro

LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK! https://t.co/x3jxCD3q7g [source]

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Sarah Parcak

@PJR23 @IjeomaOluo Amazing book! [source]

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The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas

5.0
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.

Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thu
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Thomas C. Foster

5.0
Preview Summary
What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface -- a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character -- and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you.

In this practic

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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick

5.0
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.

On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive.

Instead, Malala's miraculous rec
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Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

4.9
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla,
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Oh God. Well, officially it’s Marco Polo describing the cities of his travels to Kublai Khan. It’s been opined that every city he describes is a version of Venice, but I think that doesn’t really work. They seem to me to be marvellous imaginative fantasies, which sometimes reproduce states of mind. There are 40 or so cities described, all entirely imaginary I think, and that’s what’s so magical about them. But there are passages that are suggestive of something, and nearly always of the way memory works. It’s a very hard book to describe, because the cities are never just a description of a place. They all mirror states of mind and being. [source]

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James Meek

It has different layers. The set-up is that Kublai Khan has conquered this vast empire; an empire so large that he, sitting at the centre of it, cannot know all the many parts of it. He can’t visit them, he can’t see them, and if he goes to one part all the other parts have changed. So he sits there at the centre of his empire and Marco Polo travels around and visits the various cities and comes back and describes them to Kublai Khan. [source]

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Fish in a Tree

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

4.9
“Everybody is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is stupid.”

Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions. She is afraid to ask for help; after all, how can you cure dumb? However,
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Montaigne: Complete Essays

Michel de Montaigne

4.9
Catalog of a private collection of mostly post-archaic Chinese jade carvings, including many very fine animals and human figures.
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Author

There is plenty to study and see simply by looking inwards — maybe even an alarming amount. [source]

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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Reni Eddo-Lodge

4.9
In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected by it. She posted a piece on her blog, entitled: 'Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race' that led to this book.

Exploring issues from eradicated black history to the political purpose of white dominance,
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El Deafo

Cece Bell

4.9
Starting at a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends.

Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear she
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Essays: First and Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Douglas Crase

4.9
"Emerson's prose is his triumph, both as eloquence and as insight. After Shakespeare, it matches anything else in the language."
-Harold Bloom Here are Ralph Waldo Emerson's classic essays, including the exhortation to "Self-Reliance," the embattled realizations of "Circles" and "Experience," and the groundbreaking achievement of "Nature." Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson ackno
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Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson

4.9
Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touchi
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On Immunity: An Inoculation

Eula Biss

4.9
Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear--fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in your child's air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines. She finds that you cannot immunize your child, or yourself, from the world.

In this bold, fascinating book, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its imp
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The Good Immigrant

Nikesh Shukla

4.9
How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport?

Or be told that, as an actress, the part you’re most fitted to play is ‘wife of a terrorist’? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused, misappropriated and used aggressively towards you? How does it feel to hear a child of colour say in a classroom that stories can only be abou
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Amal Unbound

Aisha Saeed

4.9
The compelling story of a girl’s fight to regain her life and dreams after being forced into indentured servitude.

Life is quiet and ordinary in Amal’s Pakistani village, but she had no complaints, and besides, she’s busy pursuing her dream of becoming a teacher one day. Her dreams are temporarily dashed when–as the eldest daughter–she must stay home from school to take care of her siblings. Amal i
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Burn After Writing

Sharon Jones

4.9
How honest can you be when no one is watching?

Tumblr, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, texting, Snapchat, YouTube…the world has become one giant confessional. In a reversal of this trend, Burn After Writing encourages you to share nothing. With its incisive questions and thought experiments, this private journal challenges you to play a game of Truth or Dare with yourself.

Push your limits
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

Jesmyn Ward

4.9
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time.

In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most famous
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Toni Morrison

4.9
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.

Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dram
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

Michele Filgate

4.9
ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019

*Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, The Week, and Elle.com*

Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we don’t talk to our mothers about, and how it affects us, for better or for worse.

As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to reali
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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present

Phillip Lopate

4.8
For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational tone, its loose structure, and its drive toward candor and self-disclosure, the personal essay seizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love and disa
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101 Story Starters for Kids: One-Page Prompts to Kick Your Imagination into High Gear

Dena McMurdie and Batch of Books

4.8
Write your own stories with the help of these creative story starters! With 101 fun and unique writing prompts, you'll have no trouble kicking your imagination into high gear.

Leave writer's block and blank-page anxiety behind! Whether you write funny stories, scary stories, or something else entirely, you'll find dozens of ideas and inspiration to get you started.

Inside this book, you'll find stor
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Writing Academic English, Level 4

Alice Oshima, Ann Hogue

4.8
Now in its fourth edition, "Writing Academic English," by Alice Oshima and Ann Hogue, is the essential writing text to prepare high-intermediate and advanced college or college-bound English language learners for academic success.

Features A step-by-step approach guides students through the process of writing paragraphs and essays. Clear models and varied practice help students to develop confiden
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The Art of Teaching Writing

Lucy McCormick Calkins

4.8
Turn your class writing time from boring to breathtaking. Your students will no longer dread pulling out their notebooks.

HMMM... TELL ME MORE!
345 step-by-step instructions for mastering the art of teaching writing
70 ideas for teacher improvement in BusyTeacher’s "must read" sections
125 thoughts for direct writing development, in areas like editing, spelling and pre-writing
This is a 73-page, 3-colu
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The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne, Norman J. Endicott

4.8
This edition of his works, with Introduction, Notes, Comments, and Bibliography, includes all Browne's major pieces and selections from his minor papers and letters. The Notes are designed to help the student understand Browne's references, and the Introduction provides an account of his life and an analysis of his baroque style against the background of seventeenth-century literature.
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The Letters of the Younger Pliny

Pliny the Younger, Betty Radice

4.8
Providing a series of fascinating views of Imperial Rome, The Letters of the Younger Pliny also offer one of the fullest self-portraits to survive from classical times. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Betty Radice.

A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such eminent figures as Tacitus,
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Essay Exam Writing for the California Bar Exam

Mary Basick and Tina Schindler

4.8
Based on the authors' proven-effective methodology, Essay Exam Writing for the California Bar Exam contains everything bar exam candidates need to pass the essay portion of the California bar exam. This text combines instruction and practice in essay writing, fact analysis, and issue spotting, with a remarkably efficient review of substantive law, as well as time management tips and strategies for
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Writers Inc: A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning

GREAT SOURCE

4.8
It's a handbook...and much more!

Writers INC is, first and foremost, a complete writing handbook covering everything from writing paragraphs to writing research papers, from taking notes to taking essay tests, from writing with style to writing in the real world. No matter what type of information or help you need--guidelines, samples, rules, or friendly advice--you'll find it in this handbook.

Writ
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Great Writing 5 (5th Edition) Student Book with Online Workbook

Keith S. Folse and Tison Pugh

4.8
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Francine Prose

4.8
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart - to take pleasure in the l
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Writing Essays for Dummies

Mary Page, Carrie Winstanley

4.8
Do ever wish that you could write the perfect university essay? Are you left baffled about where to start? This easy-to-use guide walks you through the nuts and bolts of academic writing, helping you develop your essay-writing skills and achieve higher marks. From identifying the essay type and planning a structure, to honing your research skills, managing your time, finding an essay voice, and re
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A Professor's Guide to Writing Essays: The No-Nonsense Plan for Better Writing

Dr. Jacob Neumann

4.8
This isn't a typical book on writing essays. First, it's for college students, graduate students, and even high school students - good writing is good writing; all that changes is the length and complexity of what you write. But the plan stays the same. Second, I'm not going to tell you any cute stories about writing. I'm not going to tell you the standard information about writing. Nor am I going
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Fundamentals of Answer and Essay Writing

Jeff Alan Fleming and Susan Patricia Sneidmiller

4.8
My UPSC journey was long and brutal, consisting of three failures, five attempts, and six long years. Throughout the journey, there were moments of absolute despair and deep disappointment. But what agonized me the most was that I couldn't figure out the reason why I was failing. It was only in my fifth attempt that I understood my inadequacy: I wasn't able to write good answers in the em. Once I
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Why I Write

George Orwell

4.8
Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell's timeless, uncompromising essays are more relevant, entertaining and essential than ever in today's era of spin.
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A Short Guide to Writing About Biology

Jan A. Pechenik

4.8
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Longman Academic Writing Series 3 Sb with Online Resources

Alice Oshima and Ann Hogue

4.8
The Longman Academic Writing Series helps students master the academic writing skills needed to succeed in their academic careers. The five-level series spans writing topics from composing sentences to writing research papers. Each level covers the complete writing process from prewriting to revision. Level 3 teaches intermediate students to write various genres of academic paragraphs and essa
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Rainer Maria Rilke

4.8
While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which only he remains. The only novel by one of the greatest writers of poetry in Germ
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Be a Better Writer: For School, For Fun, For Anyone Ages 10-15

Steve Peha and Margot Carmichael Lester

4.8

One Book for All Kinds of Writers and All Kinds of Writing
Whether you're writing essays for school or fiction for fun, this book helps you be a better writer.
For School... Improve your grades with techniques like the What-Why-How and Content-Purpose-Audience strategies that clarify your thinking and strengthen logical arguments on tests, in essays, and on research reports. Use Sentence Patterns
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From Idea to Essay: A Rhetoric, Reader, and Handbook

Jo Ray McCuen-Metherell, Anthony Winkler

4.8
From Idea to Essay is a rhetorically arranged rhetoric/reader/research paper guide/handbook that systematically leads students through the complex process of writing an essay. Part I covers the fundamentals of essay writing. The heart of the book, Part II, teaches the nine rhetorical modes in nine identically structured chapters. Part III addresses writing research papers and using documentation.
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Longman Academic Writing Series 1: Sentences to Paragraphs, with Essential Online Resources

Linda Butler

4.8
The Longman Academic Writing Series helps students master the academic writing skills needed to succeed in their academic careers. The five-level series spans writing topics from composing sentences to writing research papers. Each level covers the complete writing process from prewriting to revision.

Level 1 teaches beginning students to write sentences and paragraphs. The text's proven approa
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College Writing 101: The Essential Guide to Writing for College and Beyond

C.M. Gill

4.8
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Everything's an Argument with Readings

Andrea A. Lunsford, John J. Ruszkiewicz, Keith Walters

4.8
This best-selling combination argument text and thematically organized reader shows students how to analyze all kinds of arguments — not just essays and editorials, but clothes, smartphone apps, ads, and Web site designs — and then how to use what they learn to write their own effective arguments. Newly streamlined, its signature engaging, and jargon-free instruction emphasizes cultural currency,
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How to Write Better Essays

Bryan Greetham

4.8
This book takes the reader carefully through each stage of essay writing from interpretation of the question, to the research, planning, writing and revision. Readers are shown how to improve not just study skills like note taking, reading, organization and writing, but their thinking skills too. The reader will learn how to analyze difficult concepts, criticize and evaluate arguments, use evidenc
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The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need: A One-Stop Source for Every Writing Assignment

Susan Thurman and Larry Shea

4.8
Never stress over a comma, colon, or dash again!

The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need is the ideal resource for everyone who wants to produce writing that is clear, concise, and grammatically excellent. Whether you're creating perfect professional documents, spectacular school papers, or effective personal letters, you'll find this handbook indispensable. From word choice to punctuation to organ
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College Essay Essentials: A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing a Successful College Admissions Essay

Ethan Sawyer

4.8
Writing an amazing college admission essay is easier than you think!

So you're a high school senior given the task of writing a 650-word personal statement for your college application. Do you tell the story of your life, or a story from your life? Do you choose a single moment? If so, which one? The options seem endless.

Lucky for you, they're not. College counselor Ethan Sawyer (aka The College Es
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Longman Academic Writing Series 2: Paragraphs, with Essential Online Resources

Ann Hogue

4.8
The Longman Academic Writing Series helps develop student writing from basic composition of sentences and paragraphs to academic essays and research papers. At each level, students are offered guidance in the complete writing process from prewriting to revision, and are provided with clear explanations, extensive practice, and consistent coverage of sentence mechanics and grammar.
Highlights

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A Student's Writing Guide

Gordon Taylor

4.8
Are you struggling to meet your coursework deadlines? Finding it hard to get to grips with your essay topics? Does your writing sometimes lack structure and style? Would you like to improve your grades?

This text covers everything a student needs to know about writing essays and papers in the humanities and social sciences.

Starting from the common difficulties students face, it gives practical ex
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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

4.8
Introduction by Mary Oliver
Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau

The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life’s work of a true “American Scholar.” As one of the architects of the transcendentalist movement, Emerson embraced a philosophy t
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The College Panda's SAT Essay: The Battle-tested Guide for the New SAT 2016 Essay

Nielson Phu

4.8
Note: For the most up-to-date content, buy the print edition, which now includes perfect-scoring essays from students. The Kindle edition does not have some of these revisions yet.

This book is the only guide that gives you a proven battle-tested essay template used by a perfect scorer on the New SAT. As a teacher, I took the New SAT myself and got a 1600 to bring you these insights. This isn't jus
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The Wars of the Roses: England's First Civil War

Trevor Royle

4.8
The War of the Roses is the definitive account of one of the bloodiest episodes in British history - the battle between the houses of York and Lancaster. This gripping history reveals the brutal realities of a nation torn apart by conflict and rivalry, while evocatively placing the fighting within the context of a period of rich cultural progress. From Caxton's printing press and the flourishing o
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Essay Writing Skills: Essential Techniques to Gain Top Marks

Patrick Forsyth, Jacqueline Connelly

4.8
Writing essays is a major part of many higher education courses. A well written essay can make the difference between a pass and a fail in coursework assignments, dissertations, personal statements, graduate school applications and exams.

Essay Writing Skills offers practical and proven ways for students to maximize their success in all aspects of essay writing. From planning a first essay to asses
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On Writing the College Application Essay: The Key to Acceptance at the College of Your Choice

Harry Bauld

4.8
One of the most stressful aspects of the college application process is the essay. Most students worry about what an admissions officer looks for in a writing sample. But that’s the wrong way to approach this vital component, says former college admissions officer Harry Bauld. At Brown and Columbia, he saw what prospective students often did wrong—and now tells you how to do it right.

On Writing th
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Great Writing 5: From Great Essays to Research: From Great Essays to Research

Keith S. Folse and Tison Pugh

4.7
Now with engaging National Geographic images, the new edition of the Great Writing series helps students write better sentences, paragraphs, and essays. The new Foundations level meets the needs of low-level learners through practice in basic grammar, vocabulary, and spelling, while all levels feature clear explanations, student writing models, and meaningful practice opportunities. The new editio
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Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps, Third Edition: Crafting a Winning Personal Statement

Alan Gelb

4.7
The definitive guide to writing an amazing essay and mastering the college applications process.


Writing a memorable personal statement can seem like an overwhelming project for a young college applicant, but college essay coach Alan Gelb's organized and encouraging step-by-step instructions take the intimidation out of the process, enabling applicants to craft a meaningful and polished college adm
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Writing from Start to Finish: A Six-Step Guide

Kate Grenville

4.7
Ideal for writing a short story, essay, review, or report, this guide provides beginning writers with the hands-on direction they need to improve their writing techniques and ability. Using a six-step approach to writing, this resource covers brainstorming ideas, choosing a topic, outlining, drafting, revising, and editing. The tone is casual, the advice is straightforward, and the whole approach
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The College Panda's SAT Writing: Advanced Guide and Workbook

Nielson Phu

4.7
A second edition fully updated for the current SAT (2018 and beyond)This book brings together everything you need to know for the SAT writing section, from the simplest to the most advanced grammar rule. Unlike most other test prep books, this one is truly geared towards the student aiming for the perfect score. It leaves no stones unturned.

Inside, You'll Find:


Clear explanations of all the tested
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Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction

David Norman

4.7
The popularity of dinosaurs seems never ending, as evidenced by the popularity of films such Jurassic Park and documentaries like Walking with Dinosaurs. But how much do these types of entertainment really tell us about recent scientific discoveries and the latest research into the world of the dinosaur?
This is the first book explain how scientists have been able to put together a picture of how d
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Hooking Up

Tom Wolfe

4.7
In Hooking Up, Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast observing 'the lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000.' From teenage sexual manners and mores to fundamental changes in the way human beings now regard themselves thanks to the hot new fields of genetics and neuroscience; from his legendary profile of William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker (first
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Essay Writing: Teaching the Basics from the Ground Up

Jock Mackenzie

4.7
Get back to basics with this practical look at the foundations of good essay writing. With personal and classroom anecdotes, ideas and strategies, and samples and reproducibles, this cheerful and accessible book offers real-life advice that both teachers and students can really use.

Each chapter contains easy-to-incorporate lessons along with teaching tips for teaching specific concepts that range
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How to Write a 5th Grade (or any other grade) Essay

Kathleen Powers

4.7
Writing essays is hard. Kids must organize their ideas, overcome their fear of a blank page of paper, write a good hook, connect their introduction to their conclusion, use transitions and figurative language, vary sentence types, use good vocabulary and revise. How to Write a Fifth Grade (or any other grade) Essay shows kids how to do it all. This how-to book starts where kids start, thinking up
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Great Writing 3: From Great Paragraphs to Great Essays

Keith S. Folse, Elena Vestri Solomon, et al.

4.7
Now with engaging National Geographic images, the new edition of the Great Writing series helps students write better sentences, paragraphs, and essays. The new Foundations level meets the needs of low-level learners through practice in basic grammar, vocabulary, and spelling, while all levels feature clear explanations, student writing models, and meaningful practice opportunities. The new editio
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Scholastic Success with Writing: Grade 5

Scholastic

4.7
Give students the targeted, skill-building practice they need with these standards-based books! Each workbook includes more than 40 ready-to-reproduce practice pages. Easy-to-follow directions and fun exercises motivate students to work on their own. Every activity in each book is correlated to state standards. For use with Grade 5.
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Longman Academic Writing Series 5: Essays to Research Papers

Alan Meyers

4.7
The Longman Academic Writing Series helps students master the academic writing skills needed to succeed in their academic careers. The five-level series spans writing topics from composing sentences to writing research papers. Each level covers the complete writing process from prewriting to revision. Level 5 teaches advanced students to write various genres of academic essays and research paper
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Crafting the Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Nonfiction

Dinty W. Moore

4.7
Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to "the pursuit of mental rabbits"--a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief that essays are stuffy and antiquated, the truth is that the personal essay is an ever-changing creative medium that provides an ideal vehicle for satisf
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GRE Analytical Writing: Solutions to the Real Essay Topics - Book 2 (Test Prep Series)

Vibrant Publishers

4.7
Continue to write flawless essays with the Book 2 of GRE Analytical Writing: Solutions to the Real Essay Topics. This book includes essay writing strategies and sample essays for completely new twenty five Issues and twenty five Arguments. The essay writing strategies demonstrate the ways to develop responses to Issues and Arguments. A variety of approaches are used, from using first-person point
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The Norton Book of Nature Writing, College Edition

John Elder and Robert Finch

4.7
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Literature: A World of Writing Stories, Poems, Plays and Essays

David L. Pike and Ana Acosta

4.7
Literature A World of Writing Stories, Poems, Plays, and Essays" is an exciting new full-color introduction to literature anthology with compelling visual pedagogy and a rich selection of thematically organized readings that make new literature familiar and familiar literature new. An extensive writing handbook shows students how to read critically and guides them through the process of writing ar
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How to Write a Paragraph, Grades 6-8

Kathleen Teacher Created Resources Staff

4.7
An intro to how to write a clear and well organized paragraph.
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A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes

Witold Gombrowicz, Benjamin Ivry

4.7
Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), novelist, essayist, and playwright, was one of the most important Polish writers of the twentieth century. A candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, he was described by Milan Kundera as “one of the great novelists of our century” and by John Updike as “one of the profoundest of the late moderns.”
Gombrowicz’s works were considered scandalous and subversiv
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Practice Makes Perfect Mastering Writing

Gary Muschla

4.7
Helpful instruction and plenty of practice for your child to master the basics of writing

Understanding writing is essential for your child to write with competence and clarity. "Practice Makes Perfect: Mastering Writing" gives your child bite-sized explanations of this essential skill, with engaging exercises that keep her or him motivated and excited to learn. They can practice the writing skills
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California Performance Test Workbook: Preparation for the Bar Exam

Mary Basick and Tina Schindler

4.7
The Second Edition of California Performance Test Workbook contains everything needed to pass the performance test portion of the California Bar Exam, which is essential since the performance test score counts double. The book provides an innovative step-by-step strategic general approach for organizing and writing passing performance test answers within 90 minute timed conditions. The authors a
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50 Successful Harvard Application Essays: What Worked for Them Can Help You Get into the College of Your Choice

. Staff Of The Harvard Crim

4.7
Fifty all-new essays that got their authors into Harvard - with updated statistics, analysis, and complete student profiles - showing what worked, what didn't, and how you can do it, too.

With talented applicants coming from top high schools as well as the pressure to succeed from family and friends, it's no wonder that writing college application essays is one of the most stressful tasks high scho
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Writing Fabulous Sentences & Paragraphs

Jill Norris

4.7
If you want to improve and refine the sentence and paragraph writing skills of middle grade students, then Writing Fabulous Sentences and Paragraphs is a "must have." Topics covered include: - Sentences -- combining sentences, adding descriptive details, using figurative language - Single Paragraphs -- recognizing and writing main idea, topic sentence, and supportive details - Multiple Paragraphs
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How to Write Any High School Essay: The Essential Guide

Jesse Liebman

4.7
What do high school teachers expect from your writing? Here's the inside information on how your teachers think. If writing essays is challenging for you -- or if you want to turn a B essay into an A essay -- you'll want to read this book. How To Write Any High School Essay is the essential, easy-to-use, and comprehensive guide for any high school essay you could ever want to write -- no matter th
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Writing Essays about Literature: A Brief Guide for University and College Students

Katherine O. Acheson

4.7
Engaging but rigorous, this concise guide gives students a detailed framework for writing an "A" paper.
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Evidence-Based Reading, Writing, and Essay Workbook for the SAT

Kaplan Test Prep

4.7
Prepare for the SAT with confidence! With more than 75 years of experience and more than 95% of our students getting into their top-choice schools, Kaplan knows how to increase your score and get you into your top-choice college!
Prep Smarter. Not Harder. Kaplan s Evidence-Based Reading, Writing, and Essay Workbook for the SAT provides everything you need to master the challenging Evidence-Based R
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Writing Essays about Literature: A Guide and Style Sheet

Kelley Griffith

4.7
Widely used in introductory literature courses, this book provides valuable guidelines for interpreting literature and writing essays. It includes a thorough discussion of the 3 main literary genres--fiction, drama, and poetry, an overview of literary theory, guidelines for writing essays, procedures for writing and documenting research essays, a selection of full-length works that illustrate key
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Scarlett's Women: Gone With the Wind and Its Female Fans

Helen Taylor

4.7
One of the most successful books ever published and the basis of one of the most popular and highly praised Hollywood films, Gone with the Wind has entered world culture in a way that few other stories have. The book was published in June 1936; the film premiered on December 15, 1939. The book has sold 25 million copies, has been translated into twenty-seven languages, and won the 1936 Pulitzer Pr
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How to Write an Essay, Grades 6-8

GABRIEL ARQUILEVICH

4.7
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Essay Writing For English Tests

Gabi Duigu

4.7
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Mastering The 5-paragraph Essay: Mini-Lessons, Models, and Engaging Activities That Give Students the Writing Tools That They Need to Tackle—and Succeed on—the Tests

Susan Van Zile

4.6
A master teacher shares her meaningful, student-centered lessons and activities that have helped her meet national and state standards. Includes models and rubrics for teaching informational, narrative, persuasive essays. Perfect for engaging students and helping them succeed on the tests!
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ESL Intermediate/Advanced Writing

Mary Ellen Munoz Page, Dr. Steven Michael Gras Ph.D., et al.

4.6
Master ESL (English as a Second Language) Writing with the study guide designed for non-native speakers of English. Skill-building lessons relevant to today's topics help ESL students write complete sentences, paragraphs, and even multi-paragraph essays. It's perfect for classroom use or self-guided writing preparation.

DETAILS
- Intermediate drills for improving skills with parallel structure, mo
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Best College Essays 2018: America's Best College Admissions Essays

Gabrielle Glancy and Teja Watson

4.6
This book showcases the best college admissions essays of the year -- essays that got students into all the top schools in the country. Reading sample essays is a great way to learn how to write one. This book provides excellent examples, along with descriptions by the students themselves, of the process they went through in writing their essays. The essays in this anthology give us a glimpse into
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How to Write a Story, Grades 4-6

Jo Ellen Moore

4.6
How to Write a Story, Grades 4-6 is packed with easy-to-execute ideas and dozens of writing forms that will assist student in refining their sentence writing skills. Lessons and reproducibles to help students learn the parts of a story cover: - characters - setting - plot - conclusion Guidelines are presented for writing in six different genres: - realistic fiction - historical fiction - mystery -