General Essay Writing Tips

General Essay Writing Tips:

1. Step One: Brainstorming - The most important part of your essay is the subject matter. You should expect to devote about 1-2 weeks simply to brainstorming ideas. Having completed step one, you should now have a rough idea of the elements you wish to include in your essay, including your goals, important life experiences, research experience, diversifying features, spectacular nonacademic accomplishments, etc. You should also now have an idea of what impression you want to make on the officers.

2. Step Two: Selecting a Topic - After evaluating your essay topics with the above criteria and asking for the free opinions of your teachers or colleagues, and of your friends, you should have at least 1-2 interesting essay topics.

3. Step Three: Writing the Essay - Even seemingly boring topics can be made into exceptional admissions essays with an innovative approach.
Unfortunately, there is no surefire step-by-step method to writing a good essay.

But still following few steps can make the essay successful:

01 - Answer the question – Check what are all the questions that will arise from the Essay that you will present.
02 - Be original - Even seemingly boring essay topics can sound interesting if creatively approached.
03 - Be yourself
04 - Don't thesaurize your composition - For some reason, students continue to think big words make good essays. Big words are fine, but only if they are used in the appropriate contexts with complex styles. Think Hemingway.
05 - Use imagery and clear, vivid prose
06 - Spend the most time on your introduction - Expect officers to spend 1-2 minutes reading your essay. You must use your introduction to grab their interest from the beginning.
07 - Body paragraphs must relate to your introduction - Your introduction can be original, but cannot be silly. The paragraphs that follow must relate to your introduction.
08 - Use transition - You must use transition within paragraphs and especially between paragraphs to preserve the logical flow of your essay.
09 - Conclusions are critical - The conclusion is your last chance to persuade the reader or impress upon them your qualifications.
10 - Do something else
11 - Give your draft to others
12 - Revise, revise, and revise

In writing the essay you must bear in mind your two goals:
1. Allow for the evolution of your main topic.
2. Do not assume your subject must remain fixed and that you can only tweak sentences.

Editing takes time: Consider reordering your supporting details, delete irrelevant sections, and make clear the broader implications of your experiences. Allow your more important arguments to come to the foreground. Take points that might only be implicit and make them explicit. To persuade the officer that you are extremely worthy of and to make the officer aware that you are more than a GPA and a standardized score, that you are a real-life, intriguing personality.