<p>Is it okay to use dialogue in college essays when talking about a specific conversation or experience you had? </p>
<p>It's not continuous dialogue (like, my whole essay won't be a conversation) but just a few lines here and there.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Yes, anything you want</p>
<p>Yeah, I used dialogue in mine and I read many accepted essays that effectively used dialogue. Just be careful not to go overboard and turn it into a whole conversation. </p>
<p>" 1. Dialogue:</p>
<p>Weak Version: Mrs. Von Crabbe, my piano teacher, taught me more than just how to play the piano. Her lessons were filled with advice that one could use in life. Even though her English was often just a little off, and her manner seemed odd, she will always be memorable to me.</p>
<p>Better Version: "Alex," Mrs. Von Crabbe would say, "the concert is starting even so before you sit down on the bench." She had told us the first day never to call her Mrs. Von Crabbe Apple "even with my back in the behind." But how could we? We loved and feared her too much.</p>
<p>Comment: Both essays could become weak essays if the only point they made was that Mrs. Von Crabbe was wonderful. The second essay, however, rich in quotation and detailed memory, has the promise of letting the reader "hear" Alex, the writer, and like him. Having the reader like you is probably the best kept secret of college essay writing."</p>
<p>use a dialogue so as not to be too monotonous. and dialogue works towards showing what happened. but don't end up writing a script :)</p>