When I write essays there are many ideas flowing through my head. It is sometimes hard for me to focus my ideas into one complete product. For the college essay it is easier for me to focus my ideas.
Before I write a college essay I make a resume of my accomplishments in high school and life. This acts as an outline for what I want to include in my essay. Also I can focus an essay around one accomplishment on the resume. I have found this process to be effective because it helps me focus my ideas on one specific thing, rather than rambling on about many things.
One thing that surprises me about my thinking is that, writing is something that comes natural to me but finding personal things to write about is difficult. This is another way a resume helps me, but even then it is difficult to just pick a few things to write about. Once I do find something to write about, the writing comes really smoothly. It just takes a while to get there. Because of this, I want to work on focusing my ideas more. Also, I need to work on making my essay more appealing to a college admission audience. I don’t have much experience with writing to that kind of audience, so I need to improve on that.
Ideas, Ideas, Ideas. They are so hard to get right? Especially now that we are heading to college, we need lots of ideas to put in our college essay. I like the first sentence of your third paragraph. You are so right at that part. That writing comes natural. It's really is nice that we as an individual writes in a natural way. Nice Blog.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with you on the difficulty of the college essays. There's so many ideas flowing through our minds and it's hard to just narrow it down and choose the best one. I like how you take the time and write out your accomplishments to focus all your thoughts and ideas to get down to the right one. Good luck with your essay!
ReplyDeleteKathryn, I totally understand how difficult it is to write a personal things in college essay. I have to think very deeply and know myself very well. I have the same troubles that you have. Just take a time and brain storm your ideas and thoughts before you write an essay. Good Luck~
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