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The Best Way to “Show” in Your College App Essay When I started as a young reporter at my first newspaper job in Illinois, I was assigned to cover a half dozen small farm towns. I didn’t think much would happen out there. But after about a month,...How to Turn a Real-Life Moment into an Anecdote
I confess: I love anecdotes. These are basically when a writer shares a mini-story about a real-life moment or experience. Usually, they are plucked out of the past, and presented without much introduction. Their power is that they draw you into a story, or...College Application Essay Grabber Trick: Show First!
When you write a college application essay, you want to “grab” the attention of your reader from the start. My favorite writing technique to hook readers is to engage them with an anecdote, which is a real-life moment or incident. You might have...Read moreIf your essay starts by relating something that happened, the reader is going to dive right into it and not stop until they are satisfied–until they know what happened.
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I love anecdotes. Especially for starting narrative essays for college application essays. They can take a little practice to compose, but what a deceptively powerful writing tool. Actually, if you start almost any type of writing with an anecdote–from a college...Click logo to visit Home Page!
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