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DwightEisenhower · 05-04-2008, 01:02 PM

Quick question regarding the essay--I know that the type of examples are all treated equally, e.g. a reference to literature is no more or less valuable than a personal anecdote. But is it important to have a diversity of examples? My essay for this prompt was almost entirely personal anecdote, albeit ellaborated.

Second question too, actually. How much of an issue is handwriting? My handwriting is atrocious...readable, obviously, but it may take a little exerted effort. How do readers handle this, and how do they treat illegible words? As spelling errors? I mean I may use the word "pervasive" and have an "r" that kind of feeds into the "v" and doesn't really look like an r. Will a reader take the extra mental second to figure out that the word says "pervasive" or will they get annoyed?

05-04-2008, 01:02 PM	#37
DwightEisenhower New Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Threads: 1 Posts: 7	Quick question regarding the essay--I know that the type of examples are all treated equally, e.g. a reference to literature is no more or less valuable than a personal anecdote. But is it important to have a diversity of examples? My essay for this prompt was almost entirely personal anecdote, albeit ellaborated. Second question too, actually. How much of an issue is handwriting? My handwriting is atrocious...readable, obviously, but it may take a little exerted effort. How do readers handle this, and how do they treat illegible words? As spelling errors? I mean I may use the word "pervasive" and have an "r" that kind of feeds into the "v" and doesn't really look like an r. Will a reader take the extra mental second to figure out that the word says "pervasive" or will they get annoyed? Last edited by DwightEisenhower : 05-04-2008 at 01:13 PM.