5 Things Not to Do in Your College Application Essay
Cristin Keely Cristin Keely

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.

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Why I Can’t Stop Thinking About Organization in Writing
Cristin Keely Cristin Keely

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.

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