College Essay

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College Essay
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Recipe for a Draft Step 1

• Think about yourselfWhat are your strengths and
  weaknesses? What are your best qualities? Are you
  a plugger? An intellectual? A creative type?
  Curious? Passionate? Determined?

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Step 2

• Choose a positive quality you'd like to convey to
  the admissions committeeDon't pick an event or
  something you've done. President of the Nuclear
  Awareness Club is not a personal quality. Focus
  on a quality of your mind or of your character.
  Complete this sentence "I am a very _________
  person."

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Step 3 Tell a story

• Set a timer for 10 minutes. Pretend you're
  taking an exam at high school and responding to,
  "Tell a story about an experience or time when
  you showed you were a very _________ person." Use
  the characteristic you identified in Step 2.
  Write non-stop for 10 minutes force yourself to
  keep telling the story and what it reveals until
  the timer goes off.

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Next Step

• Look at your college application and notes - what
  question does your brainstorm fit?
• Do you already have a essay structure emerging?

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Revising

• Add an introduction
• Add FRED (Facts, Reasons, Examples, and Details)
• Ask yourself - who or what is the focus? The
  answer should be - ME!
• Add a conclusion
• Play with vocabulary

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When you are ready to move on

• Type up your draft into the computer. Start
  doing some minor editing.
• Print out 1 copy and send me an e-mail of the
  draft.
• Find at least 1 other person who is finished to
  fill out a peer editing sheet.

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After that

• After you get some feedback from peers and Miss
  Shumway make your final editing and revising
  choices.
• Print final draft. Attach to behind the final
  draft
• Rubric
• Peer edit sheet
• Rough draft read by peer
• Brainstorming draft

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Resources

• http//www.collegeboard.com/student/apply/essay-sk
  ills/111.html