“It Sounds Like Me”: Using Creative Nonfiction to Teach College Admissions Essays

Jennifer Wells

doi:10.58680/ej20086725

ISSN: 0013-8274
E-ISSN: 2161-8895

“It Sounds Like Me”: Using Creative Nonfiction to Teach College Admissions Essays
Author(s): Jennifer Wells
Source: English Journal, Volume 98, Issue 1, Sep 2008, p. 47 - 52
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58680/ej20086725
- Published online: 01 Sep 2008

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A high school reading and writing center specialist, Jennifer Wells describes how her creative nonfiction workshops inspired students to attend more closely to their personal experience, voice, and sensory detail in their college essays.

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