
Hitting the Word Limit on Your College Admissions Essay: How to Expand Scenes and Add Detail
Space comes at a premium in college essays. In just a few hundred words at most, you have to sketch
Space comes at a premium in college essays. In just a few hundred words at most, you have to sketch
Condensing is an important part of the college essay process. Most essays start around 100, 200, or even 300 or more
In the following Q&A, Write the World’s Mary Cronin gains insight into how to write compelling memoirs from and award-winning
Do the events in your personal narrative unfold chronologically (in the order in which they happened)? Or do they jump
Verbs, aka action words, have the power to imbue your writing with energy, and even create a sense of mood.
Most nonfiction writing—and most college essays!—have three main writing styles that are woven together into a narrative: scene, summary, and