Does this book give good advice?

College Essays
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<p>I’m writing my essay following the advice written in the book </p>

<p>“Escape Essay Hell!” by Janine Robinson</p>

<p>Does anyone else know this book, and how good is its advice? It sounded fairly convincing to me. I wrote the latest version of the essay I posed here according its suggestions. But my parents say that no matter how good a book is, its author doesn’t personally know me, so I can’t take the advice too seriously and instead I should trust my parents more than the book. They didn’t want a narrative-style essay.</p>

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<p>Ask someone like an English teacher or your GC if you trust them. A lot of parents also don’t know what make a good essay. That said… I have never read a narrative essay that would work well for college admissions.</p>

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<p>I would be concerned that your parent are interfering too much in the process if they actually have a way they ‘want’ your essay to be that is as specific as stating whether it should be narrative style or not. That book you mention is specifically for narrative style essays. Your parents may be familiar with the college essay or they may not, they may think it is like a school essay which it is not. Only you would know.</p>

<p>However one pretty well respected college advisor Lynn’s O’Shaughnessy of The College Solution does like that book.
<a href=“How to Avoid Essay Hell”>http://www.thecollegesolution.com/how-to-avoid-essay-hell/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;