Books with author Jacqueline Robinson

Peterson's Master the SSAT & ISEE contains hundreds of practice questions, solid test-taking advice, and essential private secondary school information. Test-takers can use Peterson's ebook to obtain their best high school entrance exam score and get into the secondary school of their choice. Readers will find sections on high school entrance exam basics, vocabulary review, verbal ability review, reading review, mathematics review, writing sample review, SSAT and ISEE practice tests, and a Parent's Guide to Private Schools. Peterson's Master the SSAT & ISEE provides students with detailed strategies to help maximize their test scores AND assists parents with guidance on selecting, applying to, and paying for private school.

If you are like most students, college admissions essays push you into the scary, uncharted territory of writing about yourself. It doesn’t help that you feel unprepared to craft this unfamiliar type of personal essay or that you also feel incredible pressure to make it perfect.But there’s still time to learn—and ace it! The Writing Survival Kit will prepare you to write a killer essay using a toolkit of powerful narrative writing techniques. If you can tell your real-life stories, you will engage your readers and reveal your personality, talents, skills, character, intellectual vitality, grit, passions and dreams in the process. Colleges love this!No matter where you are in the essay writing process, learn about finding topics, structuring a narrative essay, crafting anecdotes, showing and telling, adding depth and introspection, displaying intellectual vitality, using sensory details, including dialogue, adding titles, and ending with memorable conclusions. Every "chunk" of advice and instruction is indicated with easy-to-find icons.Besides writing tips, techniques, strategies and other writing tools, this book includes helpful college admissions resources and inspiring sample essays written by real students. Most of the writing instruction is backed up by relevant examples. Outfitted with this easy-to-use Writing Survival Kit, you will be prepared to conquer your own college application essays—and land in your dream school!Students looking for a step-by-step guide on crafting narrative college admissions essays would love Essay Hell's companion guide: Escape Essay Hell. They also can find 50 inspiring narrative-style essays in the popular collection of samples written by real students who got into the most competitive colleges and universities in the nation, called Heavenly Essays.Find more help on the author's popular blog on writing college application essays at www.EssayHell.com. She also offers group and private tutoring to students and those who work to help them find their top-choice schools.

The guide for students AND parents!Master the SSAT & ISEEprovides all the prep needed to score higher on the SSAT and ISEE: up-to-date information on the tests, hundreds of practice questions and four full-length practice tests (all with detailed answer explanations), and solid test-taking advice. Also includes guidance for parents on selecting, applying, and paying for private school, as well as "Private Schools at-a-Glance" state-by-state chart with data on more than 1,000 private secondary schools to aid in the search for the right private school.Book Details:Format: WorkbookPublication Date: 4/13/2009Pages: 720

UPDATED FOR 2017-18!!Students looking for guidance on how to answer the most common prompts for college application essays for 2017-18 can find excellent advice, tips and ideas in this handy primer. This easy-to-use guide provides writing strategies for the essay prompts required by The Common Application, the Coalition for Access application, the University of California and ApplyTexas applications, as well as other popular college prompts. It include tips and ideas for answering the main transfer essays (both Common App and UCs), as well as the most common, shorter supplemental ("supps") essay required by many schools, such as why you are the right fit for a school and your extracurricular interests and activities. It also has a chapter on how to recycle essays.This guide is the perfect companion for writing coach Janine Robinson's other popular book, "Escape Essay Hell!," which helps students brainstorm unique topics for their application essays and write them in a powerful narrative style in 10 fast and easy steps. It also includes a way to get "Escape Essay Hell!" for FREE!Her newest guide, the "Writing Survival Guide," is packed with narrative writing tips, techniques and devices, as well as sample essays.Don't let a poorly conceived, dull essay keep you out of the school of your dreams! It's all about putting the right "spin" on your essay so you can show the world exactly who you are--a unique, smart and insightful student!Finds lots of helpful advice and information on writing standout college application essays at www.EssayHell.com. Author Janine Robinson also provides one-on-one tutoring and editing services to students all over the world. Go to her site for details.

For some reason, whenever my oldest granddaughter sleeps over, I regularly read to her before bedtime. I realized that, no matter how awesome the stories were that I read to her, she would constantly ask me to make one up for her. I always start out with something short, and she would say, "Then what?" Before we knew it, I would come up with some pretty good stories for her. The name Stories on the Fly came about because I had to make one up on the spot all the time. Gianna the Lost Princess is one of eight stories. It is about a little baby girl that got lost during a plane crash.

If you are like most students, college admissions essays push you into the scary, uncharted territory of writing about yourself. It doesn’t help that you feel unprepared to craft this unfamiliar type of personal essay or that you also feel incredible pressure to make it perfect. But there’s still time to learn—and ace it! The Writing Survival Kit will prepare you to write a killer essay using a toolkit of powerful narrative writing techniques. If you can tell your real-life stories, you will engage your readers and reveal your personality, talents, skills, character, intellectual vitality, grit, passions and dreams in the process. Colleges love this! No matter where you are in the essay writing process, learn about finding topics, structuring a narrative essay, crafting anecdotes, showing and telling, adding depth and introspection, displaying intellectual vitality, using sensory details, including dialogue, adding titles, and ending with memorable conclusions. Every "chunk" of advice and instruction is indicated with easy-to-find icons. Besides writing tips, techniques, strategies and other writing tools, this book includes helpful college admissions resources and inspiring sample essays written by real students. Most of the writing instruction is backed up by relevant examples. Outfitted with this easy-to-use Writing Survival Kit, you will be prepared to conquer your own college application essays—and land in your dream school! Students looking for a step-by-step guide on crafting narrative college admissions essays would love Essay Hell's companion guide: Escape Essay Hell. They also can find 50 inspiring narrative-style essays in the popular collection of samples written by real students who got into the most competitive colleges and universities in the nation, called Heavenly Essays. Find more help on the author's popular blog on writing college application essays at www.EssayHell.com. She also offers group and private tutoring to students and those who work to help them find their top-choice schools.