<p>To emphasize certain parts of my essays, I want to underline, italisize, and/or bold certain phrases or words. Do you think this is a good idea?
Do the admission counselors rather prefer plain text?</p>
<p>you could be creative. Don't overdose on making the text bold though. Text should be bold only if you're making a certain reference...i forgot what it was..definetely not a book...you underline or italicize the book's title when referring to it.</p>
<p>But you can use italics to emphasize a word, which emphasizes a point, which emphasizes a..ok i'll stop now. </p>
<p>That's what I see in novels and articles anyway.</p>
<p>the best essays, like all other writing, contain all their emotive power in their diction, not in the addition of unnecessary formatting.</p>
<p>I figure the admission counselors would appreciate some formatting to make it easier for their eyes.
They sit there reading tons of essays a day. There is no doubt they skim your essay and may even miss out of some of the important stuff.
However, by highlighting the points for them, it makes it easier for them.</p>
<p>This is just my opinion. I'm not sure. If I had to send the essay in tomorrow, I would leave only a couple words bold and underlined in my essays. Of course, overdoing it is BAD idea.</p>