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STUDENTS HELPING STUDENTS™
A new series of student-written study guides
NATAVI GUIDES, a New York City publisher, announces the launch of Students Helping Students™, a new series of guides for high school and college students. Each Students Helping Students™ guide is written and edited exclusively by current college students and recent graduates. Each title focuses on a particular topic of interest to students and includes helpful advice and effective strategies for tackling that task. Encouraging and informative quotes and personal essays from dozens of students, as well as suggestions from teachers, professors, and advisors complement the content of each guide.
Nataly Kogan, the President of NATAVI GUIDES, co-founded the company with her husband, Avi Spivack, who is the Managing Editor. After graduating from Wesleyan University in 1998, Nataly wrote a short guide for incoming seniors about tackling their senior thesis. She felt that she had learned a few things after slaving over her own thesis for the entire year and succeeding in receiving the highest honors from her major and the University. Nataly sent the guide to one of her professors, who in turn passed it on to the thesis writers in his department. Students found it helpful and encouraging to hear advice from someone who had been through the thesis writing experience, and many of them contacted Nataly to tell her that her little booklet helped them through their thesis process.
Avi also used Nataly’s guide as he slaved away on his thesis at Wesleyan University. He found another student’s honest advice helpful and effective—it might have also helped that the guide’s author was his girlfriend at the time. Nataly and Avi began discussing the idea to publish a series of guides written and edited exclusively by students and recent graduates. They graduated from Wesleyan, moved to New York, got married—to each other—and, in January of 2002, they started NATAVI GUIDES to publish the Students Helping Students™ series of student-written guides.
“Some of the most helpful and revealing advice I received while at Wesleyan came from other students. I was lucky to go to a small school where the student community was tightly knit and this knowledge could be easily passed around—and I realized that this is not the case at many larger colleges and universities,” says Nataly, whose revised guide titled CONQUERING YOUR UNDERGRADUATE THESIS is one of the first five Students Helping Students™ guides published by NATAVI GUIDES this fall. “Students have so much knowledge and experience that could benefit other students, and our mission is to share that knowledge with as many students as possible through the Students Helping Students™ series.”
The first five Students Helping Students™ guides will be published in the fall of 2002: Tackling Your First College Paper, Fishing for a Major, Getting the Most from Study Abroad, Scoring a Great Internship, and Conquering Your Undergraduate Thesis. Students Helping Students™ guides are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group (IPG).
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