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Tips for Writing the College Application Essay

Tips for Writing the College Application Essay Your application essay is not about grades, scores, or achievements—it's about you. It introduces you as an individual and shows that you can write and think coherently. Colleges want curious and articulate people who are ready to enter college. Your essay can show them you are that person. The essay is not a standard part of every college application. In fact, about 60 percent of colleges don't even require one. But at other colleges, particularly highly selective colleges, a well-written essay is essential. There's even a chance it will boost a borderline application into the "admitted" column. No matter what the essay topic is, the real topic is you. The people who read your essay want to get to know you. Use the essay prompt to show your personality, humor, and ability to learn from your experiences. There's a huge amount of advice on writing college application essays. Here are some basic guidel

The Top 5 Challenges for Writing College Papers

Entering a college course at any age can be daunting, especially to the new student. The workloads are heavier, the demands greater, and the writing assignments longer. Students are expected to communicate their ideas and absorption of course materials through carefully constructed essays and papers. Whether traditional or online, writing clearly and succinctly is core to the higher education experience. Lack of Preparedness This is a common complaint that we hear from instructors who are teaching entry-point undergraduate college courses and we also find this is a common issue. The Chronicle of Higher Education conducted surveys to determine the perceptions held by faculty members about new college students and it concluded that 44 percent of college instructors “will tell you that students are ill prepared for the demands of higher education, specifically college-level writing.” This is not an insurmountable problem and one that can be addressed by instructors and students.

What’s the Purpose of Essay Writing?

Are you tired of writing essays which are constantly being marked down and rejected by your teachers? Are you starting to question your ability to write and even wonder if you really do know how to do so in the first place? For some individuals who are linguistically gifted, writing an essay maybe a fascinating and enjoyable experience but the sad reality is that a lot of us finds it frustrating and stressful to just even construct a single sentence, how much more an entire composition? Truth is, whether you love writing or you feel the exact opposite about it, you can never finish formal education without experiencing to write such thus it would be a lot easier for you to accomplish your writing assignments if you wholeheartedly acknowledge the truth that you have to work hard and make things done before their due dates. Easier said than done isn’t it? You already gave your best shot and you’re very certain to yourself that you’ve done everything you could but still not enough