Are there any tips for writing a creative college essay?

Question

What are some things I should keep in mind when writing a college essay? What are the most important aspects?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Try to be yourself! Know your strengths and weaknesses. Some people try to convince the admissions reps that they are the next Earnest Hemingway. If the essay portion of your application gives you an open ended section and you are the creative type, by all means use it to showcase your talent. However, keep in mind the attitudes of the schools to which you are applying. It would be dangerous to write about something risque if you are applying to a conservative school. Likewise to rant about how you hate Hilary Clinton when applying to a liberal school may also be a bad idea. Try to stay away from topics that evoke strong feelings in the reader. A good rule of thumb would be to plan to write an essay that you would not be embarrassed reading aloud in your English Class.

Don't add big words that you feel unomfortable using-- it'll make you look pretentious and ruins the flow of your essay. Admissions reps read hundreds (thousands) of essays each admissions cycle and will toss aside anything that looks fake or make them work too hard to read it.

Good Luck with the app process. There are lots of sites on how to get started on writing your essay. Make sure that you have it read by at least your favorite teacher, a mentor and guidance counselor.

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Answer 3

1) Read it out loud--if you can't understand it, rewrite it
2) Don't write to impress. If you do, it will usually come out forced and choppy.
3) Leave time for editing
4) Don't cheat--bad news
5) Learn how to use online resouces to research. Your school should have connections.
6) Ask the prof to give you suggestions as to how to improve it--especially if you are a first year, this will help with proving that you are serious
7) Know what you're writing, and if you aren't used to using long words, then don't. You're going to sound like you're TRYING to get the grade.
8) Know your stuff. Don't write about something until you know everything about it.
9) Don't put it off.
10) Read your document from bottom to the top. Great way to proof.

Answer 4

The easiest way to begin writing a college essay is with brainstorming, clustering, or list making. There are other ways, but these are the simplest. With brainstorming, you simply write down everything you can think of about the topic, without rejecting any idea. Later, you go back and strike out the ideas you don't want to use. Clustering is similar, but with this method you start out with the main idea in a circle in the center, and put other ideas around it, connecting the ideas with lines. Clustering has the advantage of organizing the ideas a bit as you think of them.

List making is useful with a topic that has two sides, like a comparison topic or a for/against type of topic.

These activities are called "pre-writing" or "invention" strategies. A Writing Center tutor at your college can show you more about how they work.

After you've got all these ideas together it's time to start planning your essay. Look at your lists or clusters and decide how the material naturally divides itself. Each division might be a separate paragraph, but you may find that later on you want to divide it some more. Try to compose a sentence for the introduction that is a general statement of what you think about this topic. This is the thesis or main idea. All the other material should relate to this sentence.

Now it's time to start your first draft. Put all your lists and clusters and notes on the table next to some blank paper and start writing. If you can't get the first sentence right, don't worry about it, just go on. Work as quickly as is comfortable. When you get stuck, look at your notes. If you have a good idea about another part of the paper, write it down on the notes so you can use it later. When you finish, go back and work on the parts that seemed a little rough.

The important thing is to get your ideas down on paper. Don't worry about grammar, spelling or punctuation at this point.

Now you have a rough draft, and you are ready to begin revising it. The questions below are designed to help you think about the needs of the reader, and to make revisions that will serve the needs of your reader better. As you read the questions, look at the relevant parts of your first draft and make notes about how you want to change it. Don't be afraid to make major changes and move things around. The reader will appreciate your attention.
This is also a good time to make an appointment with a Writing Center tutor.

The last thing you do is proofread carefully. Sentence fragments and punctuation errors can sometimes be caught by reading your essay backwards sentence by sentence. This keeps you from getting caught up in the flow of your language and your meaning. Grammatical errors can also be caught by this sentence by sentence approach. Check spelling with a dictionary if you have time.

It is important to allow enough time for proofreading, so that you can be cool and calm at this stage. If you have followed the process described above, you have already spent enough time developing the content of your essay. Now you can concentrate on form, so you can look at your essay as if it is a grammar and spelling exercise. Be careful though -- sometimes students change correct forms to incorrect ones at this stage. Don't rely only on memorized rules -- make sure it sounds right too.

Answer 5

One tip is to try to think of how everyone is is writing there's and go in the opposite direction. Make it stand out for it's creativity but don't make it weird.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

first things first ...

essay's r based on creativity of y aown self ..

how u precieve the things in any other different way compared 2 ur ppl around

how can u rite if u cannot think about sumthing extraordinary

sum alien is preferred in creative writing

psychic's (mentallly) r good @ creative writing cuaz involve lotta thinkin

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Answer 8

Write to impress - use lots of long words!