Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Tips on Writing Application Essay Style

  • Write simply, not in a flowery and complicated matter
  • Write in a straightforward way.in other words don’t be subtle or cute. 
  • Write in a clear and logical manner. If you have to be creative, that is fine, but you do so in a straightforward way. These people are really interested in your vocation. They don’t want to read something that is in the form of one act plays nor do they want to read three adjectives per noun. They want you to be direct and straightforward
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  • Be clear in what you are saying make sure you are logical. Explain yourself with great clarity. 
  • Finally, most important of all, be specific, not vague. 
  1. Don’t say-‘ My grades were quite good’ but say ‘I belonged to the top 5% of my class’. 
  1. Don’t say- ‘I am interested in sports’. Say ‘I was captain of my hockey team’. 
  1. Don’t say ‘I like poetry’. Say ‘I did a study of Shakespeare’s sonnets and wrote a twelve- page bachelor’s degree dissertation on imagery’. 
  1. Don’t say – ‘ I want to be a supreme court judge, that is why I want to go to law school’. Say things like ‘I was an apprentice in a court’ or ‘I often went with my father to the courts to listen to cases’ or ‘ I wrote a legal column for a school newspaper’. That is being specific.

 (Source: The US-UK Fulbright commission. Based on a presentation in Madras by Professor Hower, Comell University, Department of English)

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