"Applying to college can be stressful, and this author, the rightly self-proclaimed College Essay Guy, makes at least one part less intimidating. Sawyer, a national speaker and workshop facilitator, brings his writing tips to an even wider audience in this highly accessible, interactive, and efficient guide...multiple copies are a must for any college-prep collection.
" - Booklist
Ethan Sawyer is a nationally recognized college essay expert and sought-after speaker. Each year he helps thousands of students and counselors through his online courses, workshops, articles, products, and books, and works privately with a small number of students.
"A brief literary encyclopedia" clarifies: "An essay is a prose work of small volume and free composition, which treats a particular topic and represents an attempt to convey individual impressions and considerations one way or another connected with it."
There are books that you just need to read, there are those that are best swallowed, and only a few should be chewed and digested.
Michael Lee
store owner
The word "essay" came into Russian from French and historically goes back to the Latin word exagium (weighing). French ezzai can literally translate the words experience, trial, attempt, sketch, sketch.