How to Brainstorm Your Personal Statement
Brainstorm your personal statement with these quick activities.
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Sensory imagery enlivens writing with descriptive detail and ambiguity, allowing the reader to imagine and infer.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Herman Melville
Melville’s simple expository style offers a pointed and poetic line: the observed human truth.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman’s ‘O Me! O Life!’ is a celebration of human being and potential.
Read MoreHow to Write Your Personal Statement in 4 Steps
Here are 4 steps to help you write your personal statement.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Hamlet
The phrase ‘To be, or not to be’ combines devices to pose the quintessential, existential question.
Read MoreGreat Lines: F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned (1922) prefigures the grand, flowing movements of the Gatsby narrative.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Ted Hughes
A small, white, mighty sign that life begins again.
Read MoreTo All the Writers
To be a writer, you only need to believe it.
Read MoreHow to Write a Summary
Here are 5 steps to write a summary efficiently.
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Here are three ways to combat ‘slacktivism’ and convince your followers to volunteer their time, effort and presence your campaign.
Read MoreHow to Use an Em Dash to Make a Line Flow
The em dash effectively connects clauses with a smooth, linking pause.
Read MoreWhat is Rhetorical Language?
Rhetorical language is outstanding language used to impress an audience.
Read MoreWhen Writing Moves: A Story of Love
What is real and true speaks for itself and has the capacity to move others - in a few sincere and loving words.
Read MoreDrafting Your Personal Statement - Step 4: Clarity and Cohesion
The last step is to add clarifying and concluding features that bring your whole statement together.
Read MoreDrafting Your Personal Statement - Step 3: Key Experiences
Present key experiences in your education and life to date, and link them to your academic goals.
Read MoreDrafting Your Personal Statement - Step 2: Framing Concept
The flame frames the Olympics, and this kind of conceptual structuring device
can make a personal statement powerful.
Drafting Your Personal Statement - Step 1: Origin Story
In 15 minutes each week, this series of steps will help you build a solid first draft of your personal statement.
Read MoreGreat Lines: Norman Maclean
In a verbal tribute to the primacy of nature, as the foundation of all existence, Maclean describes the world at the beginning and end of time
Read MoreGreat Lines: John Steinbeck
Steinbeck’s style is uncomplicated and unadorned, but in these ways uncommonly clear and incisive.
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