Well,UVA (University of Virginia) has a question which goes like this,
Q) What work of art, music, science, mathematics or literature has surprised, unsettled or challenged you, and in what way? (250 words)
Now,I’m sure I want to write about science. Infact, I had even started writing about Black Holes in relation with the work done by Stephen Hawking on them. I wrote it in the context of it surprising,unsettling as well as challenging me.
But the thing is,no matter what I feel or think about this topic,it all sounds very ‘lame’ or ‘cheesy’ on paper,and most admissions people wouldn’t even look twice before putting it away.
I need help on how to make an essay interesting while telling the truth about how I feel on the topic.
Are there any literary techniques I can use to make my essay more effective?
<p>The first thing is to write the essay without editing yourself. You can't improve an essay until you write it. After you write it, then you can rigorously go over it, eliminating cliches, adding telling details, cutting out wordiness and passive verbs. It's the editing, not the original writing or the idea, that separates the mediocre essays from the great ones.</p>
<p>Thanks for your input! Wellactually, I have already written out 3 draft essays.
I think it's getting better. Guess I'll just get someone to edit it.</p>
<p>But the main question I have now is that..
They ask for a work of science,not an element of science. But is it possible for me to focus my essay on blackholes (and how they have surprised/challenged/unsettled me) and not on work on blackholes?</p>