Good writers accomplish these tasks by immediately establishing each paragraph’s topic and maintaining paragraph unity, by using concrete, personal examples to demonstrate their points, and by not prolonging the ending of the essay needlessly. Also, good writers study the target opportunity as carefully as they can, seeking to become an “insider,” perhaps even communicating with a professor they would like to work with at the target program, and tailoring the material accordingly so that evaluators can gauge the sincerity of their interest
Overview of Short Essay Samples
Geological Sciences Samples
In the pdf link below, the first two one-page statements written by students in the geological sciences are interesting to compare to each other. Despite their different areas of research specialization within the same field, both writers demonstrate a good deal of scientific fluency and kinship with their target programs.
Geography Student Sample
The short essay by a geography student applying to an internship program opens with the writer admitting that she previously had a limited view of geography, then describing how a course changed her way of thinking so that she came to understand geography as a “balance of physical, social, and cultural studies.” Despite her limited experience, she shows that she has aspirations of joining the Peace Corps or obtaining a law degree, and her final paragraph links her interests directly to the internship program to which she is applying.
Materials Sciences Student Sample
For the sample from materials sciences, directed at an internal fellowship, the one-page essay has an especially
two or more to the square mile. The term is an elastic one, and for our purposes does not need sharp definition. We shall consider the whole frontier belt including the Indian country and the outer margin of the "settled area " of the census reports. This paper will make no attempt to treat the subject exhaustively; its aim is simply to call attention to the frontier as a fertile field for investigation, and to suggest some of the problems which arise in connection with it. In the settlement of America…
Victoria Fernandez Ms. Shields English 1120 Diesel: Be Stupid “Stupid might fail. Smart doesn’t even try.” really gets the mind thinking of a million possibilities. This Diesel advertisement shows a message to a person that being adventurous is something everyone should live by. “Be smart” is what our elders have been telling us since we were young. While Diesel, an international clothing company, takes “Be stupid” as their philosophy. Diesel shows that they want customers to take risks and enjoy…
My Virtues Honestly, I feel that this subject that were talking about makes a lot of sense. For people to understand all the concepts that science has to offer is pretty ridiculous. There is so many different subjects in science that can make anyone feel stupid. You would have to be God gifted to actually fully understand science. Just in so many ways there is that problem or question that someone will come across and wonder how in the world can I solve this problem. In comparison to me, in high…
and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you all up. You build up all these defences; you build up a whole suit of armour, so that you feel safe, so nothing can hurt you. Then that one stupid person – who’s most probably no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a piece of you. You let them in. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. You’re stripped of your…
Tavares Kennya July 1, 2012 English 28 Assignment # 2 Dumb, Stupid, and Blind In this world, there are many types of people with different personalities. Through the course of a lifetime we may bump into pretty, smart, rude, or selfish people. We make most of our friends around the community or location we are at the time. One becomes friends or acquaintances with people mostly because of the personality one has. Growing though isn’t easy because we come across those who aren’t the…
for answers to how I ended up in this appalling mess. The 17 year old I used to see was happy, confident, always smiling. The face staring back at me looks like death warmed up, drug affected, filthy, and the sort of face I would have crossed the street to avoid in a past life. I could never have predicted that this would be me 12 months ago………………………………………………….. It had all started with my mother’s breakdown and her cruel taunts to me – I was ugly, I was stupid, I was an idiot, I was worthless,…
In Clive Thompson’s essay, “The dumbest generation? No, twitter is making kids smarter” and Nicholas Carr’s essay, “Is Google making us stupid?”, they expound on the debates of what the internet is doing to our brains. Thompson writes about how kids are now growing up with new technology that is changing the way we learn and although most people think technology is what is making them stupid, it is actually the opposite. Thompson says, “ In fact, there’s powerful evidence that digital tools are helping young people write and think…
Brune 1 Max Brune Mr. Flynn CC Comp 28 October 2014 I Believe in Summertime Summer is a time when I am playing soccer, swimming and having no worries. Being able to be a stupid teenager and do stupid things with stupid teenagers. A time when the sun is out and I am ecstatic. Summer is by far my favorite time of the year. I spend a lot of my time traveling and going to music festivals. I believe that summer just isn’t a time where there is no school, but a time to bring your family together…
realize the lottery is meaningless, unfair event that needs to sacrifice people and cannot even grow their corns better. We can have more understanding through characters and conflicts. Tessie Hutchinson, protagonist, brings her married daughter into this when she gets chosen by the lottery. Her personality is evil and weak. She does not care about lottery in the beginning, but when she gets chosen, she says “There is Don and Eva” (642) to change the result of she is going to be stoned. Parents usually…
personality. There is a reason why kids need a guardian until they are 18. Children’s are stupid, I know I was. Everyone has done a lot of stupid things when they were a child. I think I will monitor my child all the time until them 18. Parents have the ability to correct their child’s mistake before they even make it. Our frontal temporal lobe of the brain doesn’t fully develop until we’re 18 years old. This part of the brain is responsible for making rational and logical decision. Therefor parents…
