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PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING | Series Editor, SUSAN H. MCLEOD | BEYOND ARGUMENT: ESSAYING AS A PRACTICE OF (EX)CHANGE offers an in-depth examination of how current ways of thinking about the writer-page relation in personal essays can be reconceived according to practices in the "care of the self" - an ethic by which writers such as Seneca, Montaigne, and Nietzsche lived. This approach promises to revitalize the form and address many of the concerns expressed by essay scholars and writers regarding the lack of rigorous exploration we see in our students' personal essays - and sometimes, even, in our own. In pursuing this approach, Sarah Allen presents a version of subjectivity that enables productive debate in the essay, among essays, and beyond. | SARAH ALLEN is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, CO, where she serves as a Rhetoric and Composition scholar and teacher. Her work has been published in Rhetoric Review and in Educational Philosophy and Theory; she also has book chapters in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing (Parlor Press) and in Research Writing Revisited: A Sourcebook for Teachers (Heinemann). Her scholarship generally explores the ethics of the personal essay, and this work informs her teaching, as she works to discover the most useful and effective ways of assisting students in engaging with difficult, dense material and in generating complex, rigorous writings of their own.

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One of the best ways to stand out in a crowd of applicants to law school is to write an exceptional personal statement. Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 3rd Edition, contains 70 real application essays as well as interviews with admissions pros and with students who've been through the process and made it to law school.Law School Essays That Made a Difference, 3rd Edition includes essays submitted to the following schools:American University Washington College of Law Boston College Law School Boston University School of Law Columbia University School of Law Cornell University Law School Duke University School of Law Emory University School of Law Fordham University School of Law The George Washington University Law School Georgetown University Law Center Harvard University Law School New York University School of Law Northwestern University School of Law Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey School of Law–Camden South Texas Law College of LawStanford University School of Law University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law University of Chicago Law School University of Colorado–Boulder School of Law University of Houston Law Center University of Michigan Law School University of New Mexico School of Law University of Ottawa Faculty of Law University of Pennsylvania Law School University of St. Thomas School of Law University of Texas at Austin School of Law University of Virginia School of Law University of Wisconsin Law School Vanderbilt University Law School Yale University Law School

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Harvard Law School is one of the premier law schools in the world. Every year, thousands of elite applicants try for a few hundred slots. Of the dedicated few accepted to this venerable and ultra-competitive institution, fifty-five have shared the application essays that helped them make the cut. Each essay is analyzed by the staff of the Harvard Crimson, Harvard's daily newspaper, and accompanied by no-nonsense advice on how to craft your own: Flaunt your talents...all of them. Admissions officers need to hear about the strengths that don’t show up in LSAT scores or on a college transcript. Lead the pack. Demonstrate your ability to lead, organize, and inspire others. Structure your essay for maximum impact. Reveal your passion, the discipline you bring to a demanding profession, and the strength of character you possess for the challenges that lie ahead.  Following on the success of the first edition of 55 Successful Harvard Law School Application Essays, 50 Successful Harvard Application Essays, and 65 Successful Harvard Business School Application Essays, this book will be an invaluable resource for anyone hoping to be accepted at the law school of their choice.

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Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies. This debate over ethics, however, has sidelined important questions of literary form. Bending Genre does not ask where the boundaries between genres should be drawn, but what happens when you push the line. Written for writers and students of creative writing, this collection brings together perspectives from today's leading writers of creative nonfiction, including Michael Martone, Brenda Miller, Ander Monson, and David Shields. Each writer's innovative essay probes our notions of genre and investigates how creative nonfiction is shaped, modeling the forms of writing being discussed. Like creative nonfiction itself, Bending Genre is an exciting hybrid that breaks new ground.

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