How to Submit a Review 

How to Submit a Review

1. Choose a book from NACAC’s books available for review, or choose another book that you are interested in reviewing. Submit the Book Review Interest Form to request a copy of the book and to ensure that no one else has requested the same book.

2. After you receive confirmation on your book, write your review, following the writing guidelines.

3. Email your review, along with an optional biography (maximum 35 words) and an electronic photo of yourself, to the Bulletin editor.

4. Sign and fax the Copyright Form.
   

Writing Guidelines

When you write your review, follow these specifications:

• Word Count. 250–500 words. Certain books may warrant longer reviews due to book length or subject matter. In these cases, reviews may be up to 700 words. Please do not submit a review over the 700-word limit.

• Subheads and lists. Because the reviews are online, readers will skim the text. By using subheads and lists, you will allow readers to understand your main point without carefully reading the text.

• Active tense. Avoid using the passive tense because passive sentences are wordier and, sometimes, do not include the subject of the sentence. Notice the clarity in the active sentence below, compared to the passive one:

Active: The dog ate the food.
Passive: The food was eaten by the dog.

• Header Information. Begin your review with the following information:

1. Book title
2. Book author
3. Number of pages
4. Cost of book, hard or soft cover
5. Publisher information
6. Your name, title and institutional affiliation.

Note: Reviews are subject to editing.

Deadlines

NACAC accepts book review submissions on a rolling basis. Please return your review no more than three months after you receive the book to review in the mail. As a general guideline, sooner is better. If you are unable to write the review within the designated time frame, please contact the editor immediately.

Submit Reviews to:

NACAC Bulletin Editor
1080 N. Highland St, Suite 400
Alrington, VA 22201
Email: bulletin@nacacnet.org
Voice: 703/836-2222 x120
Fax: 703/ 836-8015

Books and Other Publications Available for Review

Contact the editor to suggest books to add to this list.

• 55 Successful Harvard Law School Application Essays
  By the Staff of the Harvard Crimson
  St. Martin's Griffen (New York, NY) 2007
  186 pages, soft cover
• Acing the SAT Subject Tests in Math Level 1 and Level 2
  By Thomas Hyun
  Greenhall Publishing (Thousand Oaks, CA) 2006
  466 pages, soft cover

• America's Best Architecture & Design Schools 2009 (Design Intelligence)
  By Design Intellgience
  Greenway Communications LLC (Norcross, GA) 2008
  111 pages, soft cover

• The American Indian and Alaska Native Student’s Guide to College Success
  By CHiXapkaid (D. Michael Pavel) and Ella Inglebret
  Greenwood Press (Westport, CT) 2007
  239 pages, hard cover
  
• Chicken Soup for the College Soul
  By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger, Dan Clark, and James Malinchak
  Health Communications Inc. (Deerfield Beach, FL) 1999
  340 pages, soft cover
• College Access & Opportunity Guide
  Center for Student Opportunity
  Kendall/Publishing (Dubuque, IA) 2008
  298 pages, soft cover
  
  
• College Drinking: New Research from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's Rapid Reponse to College Drinking Problems Initiative
  By William DeJong, Mary E. Larimer, and Mark D. Wood, eds.
  Alcohol Research Documentation (Piscataway, NJ) 2009
  148 pages, soft cover
• College Navigator
  By the Staff of The Princeton Review
  Random House, Inc. (New York, NY) 2007
  391 pages, soft cover

• College Sense: What College and High School Advisors Don't Tell you about College
  by Tawan Perry
  iUniverse, Inc. (Lincoln, NE) 2008
  135 pages, soft cover
  
  
• The Complete Guide to the Gap Year
  By Kristin M. White
  Jossey-Bass (San Francisco, CA) 2009
  237 pages, soft cover

• Conquering the SAT: How Parents Can Help Teens Overcome the Pressure and Succeed
  By Ned Johnson and Emily Warner Eskelsen
  Palgrave Macmillan (New York, NY) 2007
  215 pages, soft cover

• Cracking College: 7 Secrets of Savvy Students
  Produced by Justin Baer
  DVD
  
  
• Doors Open From Both Sides
  The Off –to–College Guide From Tow Points of View: Parents and Students
  By Margo E. Bane Woodacre, and Steffany Bane
  American Literary Press, Inc (Baltimore, MD) 2001
  112 pages, soft cover
• Essay Writing for High School Students
  By Alexander L. Terego
  Thomson Peterson's (Lawrenceville, NJ) 2005
  208 pages, soft cover
  
  
• Getting the Best Out of College
  A Professor, A Dean, And A Student Tell You How to Maximize your Experience
  By Peter Feaver, Sue Wasiolek and Anne Crossman
  Ten Speed Press (Berkeley, CA) 2008
  250 pages, soft cover
  
  
• A Guide to College Choices For the Performing and Visual Arts
  By Kavin Buck and Ed Schoenberg
  Lulu Publishing, 2008
  66 pages, soft cover
  
  
• Guide to College Majors
  By the staff of The Princeton Review
  The Princeton Review, Inc. (New York, NY) 2010
  803 pages, soft cover

• Higher Education in the World 2007: Accreditation for Quality Assurance: What is at Stake?
  Palgrave Macmillan (New York, NY) 2007
  415 pages, soft cover

• Home Schooling
  Heidi William, Book Editor
  Greenhaven Press (Farmington Hills, MI) 2007
  119 pages, hard cover

• Improving School Guidance Services in the Senior and Middle Schools
  By Dr. Richard O'Connell (2006)
  308 pages, soft cover 
  
  
• Living the College Life
  By Ken Paulsen
  Wiley (Hoboken, NJ) 2005
  248 pages, soft cover
  
  
• Med School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Medical School Experience
  By Robert H. Miller and Daniel M. Bissell
  Thomas Dunne Books (New York, NY) 2006
  279 pages, soft cover

• Millennials & K-12 Schools
  By Neil Howe and William Strauss
  LifeCourse Associates (USA) 2008
  129 pages, soft cover

• Models for Success: Successful Academic Models for Increasing the Piple of Black and Hispanic Students in STEM Areas
  Compiled by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund
  Thurgood Marshall College Fund (New York, NY)
  228 pages, soft cover

• Parent's Guide to Collegs and Careers
  By Barbara Cooke
  JIST Works (Indianapolis, IN) 2010
  174 pages, soft cover

• The Power of Privilege: Yale and America's Elite Colleges
  By Joseph A. Soares
  Stanford University Press (Standford, CA) 2007
  238 pages, soft cover

• Professional Identity Crisis: Race, Class, Gender,and Success at Professional Schools
  By Carrie Yang Costello
  Vanderbilt University Press (Nashville, TN) 2005
  264 pages, soft cover

• The Pursuit of Knowledge
  By Richard C. Atkinson
  University of California Press (Berkeley, CA) 2007
  210 pages, soft cover

• The SEM Imperative: Taking Enrollment Management Online
  By Craig Westman and Penny Bouman
  American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (Washington, DC) 2007
  187 pages, soft cover


• Sending Your Child to College
  Prepared Parent's Operational Manual
  By Marie Pinak Carr, Katharine Carr, Ann Carr and Elizabeth Carr
  Dicmar Publishing (Washington, DC) 2008
  212 pages, soft cover

• Survival Secrets of College Students
  By Mary Kay Shanley and Julia Johnston
  Barron's Educational Series, Inc (Hauppauge, NY)
  262 pages, soft cover

• Success in College
  By Peter F. Burns
  Rowman & Littlefield Education (Lanham, MD) 2006
  130 pages, soft cover
  
  
• Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities
  By Camille Z. Charles, Mary J. Fischer, Margarita A. Mooney and Douglas S. Massey
  Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ) 2009
  301 pages, hardcover
  
  
• Teens and the Job Game
  By Beverly Slomka
  iUniverse, Inc. (New York, NY) 2007
  99 pages, soft cover
  
• The Ultimate Guide to Getting Into Nursing School
  By Genevieve E. Chandler
  McGraw Hill (New York, NY) 2008
  207 pages, soft cover
  
  
• You're Accepted
  By Katie Malachuk
  Kaplan Publishing (New York, NY) 2009
  271 pages, hardcover
  
  
• What You Don't Know Can Keep You Out of College
  By  Don Dunbar
  Gotham Books (New York, NY) 2007
  212 pages, soft cover
  
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