This course contains six lessons and over 100 pages of content which should help you to design some essay samples. Each lesson is designed to help you with different parts of the essay. To begin your search for scholarship essay samples and other materials, simply click the link below or on the left navigation area. 

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Lesson One: Tackling the Question

This section offers specific strategies and samples of the various types of essay questions. Also features comments by admissions officers:

• College

• Business School

• Law School

• Medical School

EssayEdge Extra: Who's reading my essay?

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Lesson Two: Brainstorming and Selecting an Essay Topic

• Brainstorming worksheet

• Selecting a Topic: Offers do's and don'ts as well as comments by admissions officers

EssayEdge Extra: One essay, multiple applications

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Lesson Three: Structure and Outline

• Descriptions and examples of five popular essay structures

• Sample outline and essay

• Strategies and examples of short essays

• Templates, severe writer's block cure

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Lesson Four: Style and Tone

• Sentence variety with exercise

• Word choice: Common pitfalls

• Transitions: Improving flow

• Verbs: Active voice vs. Passive voice

  
  

  • Active or Passive? Verb quiz

  
  

  • Making sentences active voice, an exercise
    
    

• Essay cliches: Top 10 essay cliches 

EssayEdge Extra: Trimming the Fat - Reducing wordiness

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Lesson Five: Introductions and Conclusions

• Descriptions, examples, and critiques of nine popular styles of introduction

• Conclusions: Do's and don'ts

EssayEdge Extra: No Introduction??!!

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Lesson Six: Editing and Revising

• Paying attention to substance, structure, interest, and proofreading

• Actual essay gaffes (funny)

• Final steps

EssayEdge Extra: To Title or Not to Title

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From ESSAYS THAT WILL GET YOU INTO COLLEGE, by Amy Burnham, Daniel Kaufman, and Chris Dowhan.
Copyright 1998 by Dan Kaufman. Reprinted by arrangement with Barron's Educational Series, Inc.

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