<p>I generally avoid sarcastic tone!! but if done tastefully, anything is yummy</p>
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<p>while true, a good writer can often make sarcasm obvious, even if in writing. The writer should make the reader analyze the essay to get the TRUE meaning across without stating it explicitly. Thats what a writer is supposed to do.</p>
<p>-AP English 11</p>
<p>Sarcasm is nearly always the wrong answer. Trust me on this. Comedy is dangerous, but sarcasm is juggling with chainsaws.</p>
<p>does anyone have a good idea for conquering an essay about “personal fashions and style” without sounding materialistic and shallow?</p>
<p>“The writer should make the reader analyze the essay to get the TRUE meaning across without stating it explicitly. Thats what a writer is supposed to do.”</p>
<p>ns347, College admissions essays are a different kind of writing. I am assuming that you used that from an AP study guide, when there’s really no comparison between that and a college admission essay. The AP is a timed test; they’re not looking for implicit meanings when you’ve only got 45 minutes to construct a coherent essay with a sporadic prompt. What a writer is <em>supposed</em> to do is present an idea in a way that is 1) relatively simple for someone else (who probably has no background on the subject) to understand; and 2) possibly entertaining (depending on the subject) to peak the reader’s interest. (1) is crucially important. I’m not saying be a cookie-cutter stiffboard, but sarcasm, you’ve got to admit, is quite tricky - especially with people you most likely will never meet. Don’t insult the people’s intelligence, or give them an easy reason to dismiss you. </p>
<p>Well-placed sarcasm <em>can</em> work, but if you don’t do that sort of thing for academic writing on a regular basis, it’s highly unadvised to do so on the essays. That’s all I’m saying.</p>
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IMO, this is very poor advice for college admissions essays. Admissions officers are reading <em>hundreds</em> of apps during the season; DOZENS of apps in a day. They are not going to ANALYZE your essay; they don’t want to and they don’t need to. They are looking at the essay as your opportunity to get across who you are in a way that grids and stats cannot do. </p>
<p>The admissions officer will read your essay ONCE THROUGH, at the most. He or she will only read it all the way through, attentively, if you write well and write about something interesting. You can be serious, funny, dramatic but you cannot be difficult.</p>
<p>A Sarah Lawrence admissions officer explicitly told us not to make things difficult for the essay readers. She said they had once recieved an essay that had been cut into pieces because the writer was a “puzzle” and they were not at all pleased that they had to assemble it. (In fact, they may not have even bothered to read it at all). Essays are subjective, and you don’t want an admissions officer to be unhappy with you when they read your essay.</p>
<p>I tried to write an essay that made sense of the rest of the app… kinda new concept… I had not included one of my aspect in rest of the app… so i decided to put that in the essay… is giving hints of interests good? I didn’t tell what I did and all but just mentioned stuffs…
anyways ED essay written… waiting game…</p>
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