Favorite books and authors: Through the Looking Glass; Plato; Winnie-the-Pooh

Advice to college writers: When you're having difficulty with an assignment, trust yourself and simply begin writing. Something is better than nothing, and you can always go back and revise.

Favorite books and authors: Jhumpa Lahiri, Donald Miller, Khaled Hosseini, J.K. Rowling

Advice to college writers: Talk to your professors if you are unclear about expectations or any other issue. They're very helpful and will appreciate your initiative.

Favorite books and authors: Khaled Hosseini, House of Sand and Fog, Where the Red Ferns Grow

Advice to college writers: Be open to trying new things! What may have worked in high school may not necessarily work in college, and that's the exciting part of developing as a writer =).

Favorite books and authors: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky

Advice to college writers: Your thesis is the engine of your paper. Without a thesis that works, your paper is going nowhere.

Favorite books and authors: JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings; Henry James, Daisy Mille; Homer , The Iliad; Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines; Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray; Margaret George, Helen of Troy

Advice to college writers: "I work well under pressure" is just a lie procrastinators tell themselves. Trust me, I've told it to myself for years. Never wait until the last minute to write a paper.

Favorite books and authors: To Kill a Mockingbird, My Sister's Keeper

Advice to college writers: Put in the time to find a topic or an angle that you are actually interested in or that you really believe. The initial extra effort will make the writing process that much easier and will produce a more effective, genuine, and even passionate work for both yourself and readers alike.

Favorite books and authors: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Advice to college writers: Always seek constructive criticism. Having a friend or tutor look over your drafts can only improve your paper and help you become a stronger writer.

Favorite books and authors: Daphne du Maurier, J.K. Rowling, Jodi Picoult, J.D. Salinger, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Brian Jacques, John Steinbeck, Gustave Flaubert, Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilde, Eva Ibbotson, and many more!

Advice to college writers: Don't put it off! If you can think clearly, you can write clearly, so just clear your head and say what you have to say.

Favorite books and authors: The Wave by Susan Casey, Mark Twain, Jane Austen

Advice to college writers: Find the balance between satisfying professors' expectations and pursuing your own writing style and ideas. Strive to improve not only your academic writing, but also more creative endeavors such as poetry and fiction.

Favorite books and authors: Whatever I currently have time to be reading...which isn't often. But I really enjoy travelogues and have also started getting into the mystery series by Italian author Andrea Camilleri.

Advice to college writers: Write with your own personal voice! Remember the basics of grammar and organization from high school, but don't let your own unique style get smothered by sticking to the hard-and-fast structural rules that you learned there. Also, spend a lot of time and effort planning out a really strong thesis statement - it will serve as the backbone for an equally strong argument and direction throughout your paper.

Favorite books and authors: John Steinbeck, A Tale of Two Cities, 1984, Brave New World

Advice to college writers: College writing is not the same as high school writing. Make sure you have a thesis and that EVERYTHING you say supports that thesis.

Favorite books and authors: Ayn Rand, Dave Eggers, T. S. Eliot, The Time Traveler's Wife, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and many many many many more :)

Advice to college writers: Take creative risks when writing! Be confident in your unique style and voice!

Favorite books and authors: It's difficult to pick a favorite book, but Animal Farm is always up there, books by Michael Crichton, and of course, Harry Potter.

Advice to college writers: Try to keep your point and purpose in mind when you're writing your paper. If you have your focus, all the support and rest of the writing will come naturally.

Favorite books and authors: Charles Bukowski, Jonathan Safran Foer, Dao De Jing

Advice to college writers: In academic writing, coming across as professional is important. Make sure you have the basic rules down every time!

Favorite books and authors: Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita; Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game; Sinclair Lewis; Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Advice to college writers: Take advantage of your professor's willingness to give advice on your paper before the due date and always take the opportunity to rewrite!

Favorite books and authors: Frankenstein, Mrs. Dalloway, 100 Years of Solitude, The Kite Runner, Memoirs of a Geisha

Advice to college writers: Choose topics that inspire passion within you. You'll enjoy writing far more, and your writing will be far stronger.

Favorite books and authors: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, The Moon is Always Female by Marge Piercy, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Advice to college writers: Doing writing assignments at the last minute is never worth it, no matter how good you think you are under pressure (I've learned this through experience).

Advice to college writers: Use every paper as an opportunity to try something new with your writing

Favorite books and authors: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami, Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

Advice to college writers: There will no doubt be countless hours of procrastination before beginning your writing assignment, but as soon as you get started—even if it's just coming up with the title—the writing process will immediately become so much easier.

Favorite books and authors: Freakonomics, SuperFreakonomics, Outliers, Blink, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Fight Club, Malcolm Gladwell, Jeff Lindsay, Chuck Palahniuk

Advice to college writers: Take some risks, write a lot, and don't be afraid to ask your professors or peers for help or guidance.

Favorite books and authors: The Poisionwood Bible, A Separate Peace, Brave New World, The Hunger Games, all that JK Rowling has created

Advice to college writers: To create your best work, write and edit multiple drafts for each assignment. Taking the time to think over your writing may spark new ideas!

Favorite books and authors: Sarah Dessen, JK Rowling, Water for Elephants, The Book Thief

Advice to college writers: Try not to get stuck on the introduction. I'd even advise you to write it last, that way you already have body paragraphs and a clear thesis to help you. Don't be afraid to write your paper out of order.

Favorite books and authors: Paradise Lost; Devil in the White City; The Things They Carried; 20,000 Leagues under the Sea; The Red Badge of Courage

Advice to college writers: You should try to focus on the big things, i.e. thesis development and cohesion, before you focus on the little ones. Often new college writers get bogged down with stress about the paper or the little things that can go wrong and end up straying from a potentially good paper.

Favorite books and authors: Charles Bukowski, Italo Calvino, Hunter S. Thompson, and Kurt Vonnegut

Advice to college writers: Write in your own style, without worrying about impressing your professor.

Favorite books and authors: Of course, J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Jack Kerouac's On The Road, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, and Kathryn Stockett's The Help

Advice to college writers: Have more confidence in your own writing. College writers perform better when they like their writing style, and there is always something to like. You just have to look for it.

Favorite books and authors: Too long and varied a list to name

Advice to college writers: Don't be afraid to experiment with different styles and writing processes. Push beyond what's familiar to you.

Favorite books and authors: Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Leo Tolstoy; Charles Dickens

Advice to college writers: Write anything and everything before worrying about the nuances of how things are being said. Sometimes that means grabbing a pen and working by hand to avoid the distractions of a computer.

Favorite books and authors: Jonathan Safran Foer, Walt Whitman, Ai, Flannery O'Connor, James Joyce, Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), Bless Me Ultima (Rudolfo Anaya)

Advice to college writers: I urge students to always be true to themselves--cater to the teacher's prompt while still writing a paper that you would want to be remembered for. Do not be scared to get creative!

Favorite books and authors: The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton is my favorite book; Harlan Coben is my favorite author.

Advice to college writers: Advice to college writers: Don't hesitate to read your essay aloud. No matter what style of writing, reading your papers aloud will help you catch grammar mistakes, inconsistencies, and any places where your focus gets lost.

Favorite books and authors: Holes by Louis Sachar, Ogden Nash Poems, Agatha Christie books, and Calvin and Hobbes comics by Bill Watterson

Advice to college writers: Pay attention to basics--once you have the form you can work on content development.

Favorite books and authors: Ernest Hemingway, Charles Dickens

Advice to college writers: Be ready to learn; no one was ever born a great writer.

Favorite books and authors: Looking for Alaska by John Green, Lucas by Kevin Brooks, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

Advice to college writers: Seek out assistance and meaningful conversation with your professors and advisers. The help and encouragement that they can provide to you is unmatched.

Favorite books and authors: To Kill A Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby

Advice to college writers: I think it is really helpful to read a paper aloud. It helps you check for grammar mistakes and helps ensure that the paper flows.