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Only imagine having tons of college acceptance letters in your inbox: Yale, Harvard, Duke (add the college of your dreams here). Sweet dreams, yeah… There’s, however, one underused loophole that can get you into your dream college – making the most of your college application essay.
College Application Essay: 3 Worst Tips You Hear Everywhere
The college application essay is your big chance to breathe life into your application package. Grab it with both hands to show the admission officers who you really are.
The 3 worst mistakes that can ruin your chances to get into your dream college:
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Everyone can be an ace in narrative writing if s/he has a good topic and knows the main principles of this writing mode. And guess what? In this post you’ll find all at once – a helpful narrative essay example with clearest explanations and fresh topics.
Main Parts of a Good Example of a Narrative Essay
Narrative essays use storytelling to describe certain events. Like any other essay type, narrative writing has its peculiarities.
Here’s what you can include in your own narrative essay examples to make them rock:
- Use many verbs – say, do, go etc. And don’t forget to include a variety of synonyms to convey different shades of meaning. For example, instead of the neutral verb ‘say’, you may use its synonyms: claim, declare, assert, imply, suggest, utter, suggest, state, mention.
- Include dialogues. Don’t forget to translate them into indirect speech if necessary.
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Persuasive essays are hard nuts to crack. Strong arguments and rhetoric intricacies never come easy to beginners. The best way to cope with this type of paper is by learning from experienced writers, so check out an argumentative essay example below.
Argumentative Essay Topics
First, you’ll need to choose a truly debatable question. That means a question which doesn’t have an obvious answer:
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Maybe not all of your academic papers deserve to be framed on the wall. But descriptive essays definitely have good chances for it. Check the following free descriptive essay example with comments and learn how to easily draw true masterpieces with your words.
Enjoy an Excellent Example of a Descriptive Essay
The Lonely Life of a College Textbook
There is nothing like finding the textbook I need, in the piles crowding my desk at the end of a term.
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Speaking English seems pretty simple. However, when it comes to writing and grammar, there are usually a lot of stumbling blocks – and the Active and Passive Voice must be the worst one. However, let’s take a closer look at it – perhaps, it’s not as black as it is painted.
Writing in Active Voice is actually pretty easy!
In English, Active and Passive voice makes it clear who does something and what (s)he does.
So let’s dig into English grammar and writing – with good examples, Passive voice and Active voice rules will seem much easier!
Active Voice in Writing and… Passive Voice in Writing: The Rules
The active voice is used when we aim to communicate mainly who has done a certain thing or what is happening to someone/something. First of all, check the way active voice is formed:
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When you almost sank into despair and nearly lost all your hope and optimism… you finally find this list of top 50 persuasive essay topics. And life becomes colorful again – you don’t need to rack your brains anymore. All you need to start a great persuasive essay is here:
Best Persuasive Essay Topics: Get Some Food for Thought
The best questions for argumentative essays have no obvious answers and always bring together some conflicting options. Here are a few examples:
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So, make yourself comfortable in your chairs. We are now entering a free amazing ideas zone.
Get ready: top 40 interesting psychology essay topics are now only a few lines below.
Psychology Essay Topics: Bury the Myths
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Sometimes you simply can’t complete your paper before the deadline. Maybe, you have a broken heart. Or, there is a party you can’t miss because your crush is there. Or, your goldfish is ill…
There are many situations when you may need to ask for paper extension. Yet, there is only one way to convince your professor that you deserve a second chance. And here we show you how to do it.
Go Through the Formalities
When asking for paper extension, you have several options:
| Direct communication |
stressful and often unproductive |
| Phone call |
too personal, for emergency cases only |
| E-mail |
any time |
E-mail is the safest and most convenient form of contact. You can choose the right words, and the professor can choose the right time for reading them.
There are some unspoken rules to be observed in paper extension emails:
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Unlike students, poets are free to break some grammar rules for expressing their creative ideas. This is why you should not be surprised if a poem misses a coma or any other punctuation mark. Every author and even every poem can have their own poetry punctuation rules, which deserve careful attention.
Capitalization and Punctuation in Poetry
Poets use punctuation for more than just clearly communicating their messages – quite often for making it sound better or otherwise more impressing to their readers. In other words, poetry offers a lot of freedom:
- There is no need to put every coma and dash at their places, because the rhythm or even a poet’s aesthetic taste can be perfect excuses for breaking the rules.
- There is no need to start every line with a capital letter. It was an old tradition, but contemporary poets can choose to follow it or not.
- It is possible to use any punctuation marks almost anywhere in the text, to convey an emotion, or simply give readers a chance to hold their breath.
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Do you want to know the top secrets of effortless memoir writing? Spend only a few minutes on learning these no-magic solutions on how to write an autobiography of high quality.
How to Write an Autobiography and Where to Start?
What is an autobiography? An autobiography is your personal account of your life story or particular episodes from it. These are the most important recommendations you should consider when attempting to write a memoir:
- An autobiography used 1st person narration. Do not hesitate to use I, me, my in it.
- An autobiography does not need to be your full life story. Discuss only the most significant experiences which influenced who you are now as a person. Note that, in some cases, a talk in front of the fireplace can prove to be more important than the actual choice of major in college.
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