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Right My College Application Essay

by Christine Gacharná

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 "One of the most useful sections in the book is a list of common mistakes students make, such as simply talking about one’s passion: 'Please don’t use the word passion in your college essay. Period. Instead, show me what passion led you to do.' In moments such as these, Gacharná’s conversational frankness is refreshing." …

"A straightforward guide that makes use of the author’s extensive experience." —Kirkus Reviews


Author Christine Gacharná bridges the gap between high school English Lit and academic writing at the undergraduate level, starting with the college application essay.

Her new book, “Right My College Application Essay” a step-by-step guide that uses powerful visuals, easy-to-follow instructions, and sample student essays to guide students in writing, organizing, and polishing a college application essay that weaves in personal variables to help make them jump off the page.  

Like all technical skills, it’s one thing to learn something conceptually and intellectually, but it’s another thing entirely to be able to perform it (and then it’s next-level to teach it, fun fact). The "Steps in the RIGHTing Process" are presented out of order in this workbook to force students out of their comfort zone of "sitting down to write a rough draft" and instead show them how to orchestrate the invisible writing work of the thinking and the doing that is academic writing because the rough draft is created by working through the steps in the process.

Like unlearning a bad golf swing, it’s the "good writers" who prove to be my biggest challenge in this work, as it takes persistence and a lot of work to convince these students to relax their standards of perfection and relearn the technique from a different mindset. Freewriting is designed to be approached with the reckless abandon needed to truly brain-dump their ideas onto the page with a total disregard for mechanics. The greatest college application essays I’ve seen were born from a single sentence mined from a freewriting exercise.

Christine Gacharná’s informative work shares her radically effective trademarked system of Communicate. Navigate. Punctuate.^® to transform anxiety into a stress-free path to crafting a college application essay that helps high school seniors sell themselves to admissions officers, land acceptance letters, and earn scholarships to help them achieve their undergraduate dreams.

Back when reading news on paper was still a thing, Christine Gacharná was the editor-in-chief of her campus newspaper and founder of the Arizona Daily Wildcat online. She is an award-winning writer and photographer whose work has appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines nationwide as both a staff member and a freelancer. She holds a BA in English from Oregon State University and an MA in journalism from the University of Arizona and is a certified professional photographer.

For three years, she taught English in Tokyo, and for six years, she taught undergraduate COMM and English courses to undergraduates at the University of Phoenix (Baton Rouge and New Orleans campuses) and, as Lead Faculty for Communication, spearheaded campus policy and efforts to streamline the evaluation and assessment of student writing.

She is the Managing Partner & Creator at ESSAY CURE and a member in good standing of the Professional Photographers of America, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Loudoun County (VA) Chamber of Commerce, and Rotary International. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, Carlos, and their puppy, Aspen.

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