New Essay Content at CC

colly
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:19:36 +0000

I dunno…I thought some of those were pretty cruddy writing. Technically correct, yes, but content- and structure-wise, ew! I know a college essay seems to be a genre all its own, but gosh, they mostly sounded like they were trying too hard to be “unique” or funny, or just rambled too much, or weren’t unified. (Or just plain used too many adjectives.) I’d be a pretty bored/annoyed admissions officer if all the essays I had to read sounded like those.