college essay help.?

Question

How can I write a good essay for college? I mean, my grades were alright in high school, but I want to guarantee a great college essay. What are some pointers?

Answer 1

Hi,
Here has some important tips for college essay .
1. Be concise. Even though the Common Application main essay has only a suggested minimum of 250 words, and no upper limit, every admissions officer has a big stack to read every day; he or she expects to spend only a couple of minutes on the essay. If you go over 700 words, you are straining their patience, which no one should want to do.

2. Be honest. Don't embellish your achievements, titles, and offices. It's just fine to be the copy editor of the newspaper or the treasurer of the Green Club, instead of the president. Not everyone has to be the star at everything. You will feel better if you don't strain to inflate yourself.

3. Be an individual. In writing the essay, ask yourself, "How can I distinguish myself from those thousands of others applying to College X whom I don't know—and even the ones I do know?" It's not in your activities or interests. If you're going straight from high school to college, you're just a teenager, doing teenage things. It is your mind and how it works that are distinctive. How do you think? Sure, that's hard to explain, but that's the key to the whole exercise.4. Be coherent. Obviously, you don't want to babble, but I mean write about just one subject at a time. Don't try to cover everything in an essay. Doing so can make you sound busy, but at the same time, scattered and superficial. The whole application is a series of snapshots of what you do. It is inevitably incomplete. The colleges expect this. Go along with them.

5. Be accurate. I don't mean just use spell check (that goes without saying). Attend to the other mechanics of good writing, including conventional punctuation in the use of commas, semi-colons, etc. If you are writing about Dickens, don't say he wrote Wuthering Heights. If you write about Nietzsche, spell his name right.

Thanks

Answer 2

1st paragraph use an opening statement or main thesis sentence about topic. Also include in 1st paragraph some of the main points that are going to be explained later in the essay. Maybe the background or orgin of the topic would be used in the 1st paragraph.

2nd & 3rd paragraph would basically explain the main key points from the 1st paragraph into further detail. It all really depends on the topic of the essay.

4th paragraph would be the conclusion of the essay. The reader shouldn't have any questions about the topic after reading the last paragraph. All main points should be understood. A closing statement would be really good. Use your thesis statement / opening statement but different wording or by rephrasing it.

Answer 3

Come up with an opinion about something and give three examples to back your opinion. Also write a cear introductory paragraph and concluding paragraph.

Oh, also read some essays by great essayists.

Answer 4

Know that everything you did in high school won't work in college.