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One of the most common requirements for most scholarships today is an essay. It’s a great way to show off your personality and highlight the reasons why you’re the one who deserves that scholarship award. However, not all of us are natural-born writers, so we have to find ways to cope.
In our latest webinar, we sat down to discuss this important matter and we came up with 10 strategies to write an amazing essay. You can view the webinar on this link.
Top Ten Strategies for Writing Stand-Out Essays
If you want your essay to be effective and memorable, you don’t have to be next Jack Kerouac or Kurt Vonnegut. Here are our top recommendations to make your essay stand out.
- Understand the impact of your essay
- Adhere to the guidelines
- Start with an outline
- Start writing your first draft early
- Set the hook first
- Show, not tell
- Leave time for more drafts in the future
- Get feedback on your writing
- Review before sending
- Remember some finishing tips
If you want to review all of these ten strategies, we strongly recommend watching the full webinar, because there is lots of actionable advice. Speaking of which…
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Of course, one of the best parts of each of our webinars are the questions that we get from you. In this webinar, we answered some of your questions, such as:
- What to do when you exceed the assigned word count on your essay
- How to know if your topic is too common
- What topics you should stay away from
- How to think like an admissions officer
And many others.
Once again, you can view the full webinar recording on our YouTube channel.
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