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Show HN: Re-Imagining the College Essay
3 points by Rajiv_N on Feb 11, 2013 | hide | past | favorite
Our goal is to make the college paper more engaging and shareable. On our site https://chalktips.com , users publish "booklets" which are counterparts to the traditional essay.

Essay assignments, especially for the social-sciences, rely heavily on text documents and they are meant to be read only by the teacher. We would like to make these assignments cater to the 21st century writer while maintaining their intellectual integrity.

Here are a few examples of student work. Please note that there are 2 layouts possible, booklets and slideshows:

https://chalktips.com/t/view/e37b797e6f3c4f97bd088629509e5f9e (booklet)

https://chalktips.com/t/view/8ce8c41333a743f696fd01984d19c5a5 (slideshow)



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