5 Things Not to Do in Your College Application Essay
The college application essay is an opportunity for colleges to get to know more about who you are, so how do you write an application essay that communicates who you are as a person? This can be an overwhelming question to ask. Here are five things you should not do in your application essay.
Why I Can’t Stop Thinking About Organization in Writing
I am kind of obsessed with how we organize writing. This obsession is not just about academic writing in the form of essays, short stories, and school assignments. I think about this for emails, conversations, and communication in general. If you haven’t thought about organization beyond academic writing, consider the way people organize an email, a meeting, or a conversation. Communication is most effective for a reader, listener, or collaborator when it is well organized, and the tools we use for organizing writing help us learn to organize our other communication as well.
What Do You Need to Face a Challenge?
We are never without resources. Whatever the task — finding a new job, having a tough conversation, choosing a path forward, adjusting to a change — there are resources we already possess. We may need to determine how to use those resources in a different way, or find other tools to add to our pile of resources, but it never starts with nothing. We have within us what we need to face a challenge.
Communication That Starts the Conversations You Want
When dealing with a problem, we often communicate what is not working, and that closes the conversation down immediately. How can you communicate so you open the conversation up?
Keeping Commitments to Ourselves and Others
How many times have you made plans or set goals for yourself that you did not follow through on? Learn how to keep the commitments you make.