Nguyễn Mỹ Hạnh
(NMHanh)
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This stuff is excerpted from The Princeton Review: Cracking the System
- Don't use six-dollar words
- good writing is writing that is easily understood: you will be in trouble if an admission officer has to struggle to figure out what you are trying to say
- Advoid too many adjectives and adverbs: they usually make writing seem flabby
- Advoid the word "however": most people use it incorrectly or use it when it is not needed. Everyone use it too much
- Read books like Elements of Style, Write for college
- Never use exclamation points
- Don't put quotation marks around words that aren't quotation
- Don't say what you are going to say, say that you are going to say it, say it, say it again and say that you've said it. Instead, just say it
- Have good writers critique your essay, have a good speller proofread it. Admission officers take it for granted that your essay get helped. If you make mistake in you essay, they'll think that you are not well-prepared.
- Don't write too long
- Don't use six-dollar words
- good writing is writing that is easily understood: you will be in trouble if an admission officer has to struggle to figure out what you are trying to say
- Advoid too many adjectives and adverbs: they usually make writing seem flabby
- Advoid the word "however": most people use it incorrectly or use it when it is not needed. Everyone use it too much
- Read books like Elements of Style, Write for college
- Never use exclamation points
- Don't put quotation marks around words that aren't quotation
- Don't say what you are going to say, say that you are going to say it, say it, say it again and say that you've said it. Instead, just say it
- Have good writers critique your essay, have a good speller proofread it. Admission officers take it for granted that your essay get helped. If you make mistake in you essay, they'll think that you are not well-prepared.
- Don't write too long
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