<p>So I'm writing my essay for SFS now (my topic is Female Illiteracy in Developing Nations), and I've hit a bit of a stumbling block. How personal is the essay supposed to be? I'm not sure if I should write it as a report, focusing on the issue, or rather my response to the issue. I'm finding it hard to add a personal component outside of the introductory paragraph and the concluding paragraph.</p>
<p>I'm also not sure if my topic is too general or trite, or how to organize the essay. For those people writing it now, did you just talk about why the issue is a problem, and then identify specific limiting factors and how to solve them?</p>
<p>Any advice is welcome. Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>The essay question seems to be in three parts: 1)discuss a current issue, 2) indicate why you consider it’s important, and 3) explain what you can suggest should be done to deal with it.</p>
<p>So, address the essay in those three parts.<br>
- should be a summary of the issue…This part is a report, not personal. factual.
- part two: Make it personal.
- Then get into what you can do the improve the situation. Make it powerful. Show real clear steps to conquer this problem. Determine what is considered an improvement, how is that measured? </p>
<p>Great issue. Be sure you can include steps that are measureable. Good luck!</p>
<p>Similar question–do you think this is an essay in which we should use “I” in order to demonstrate the issue’s importance to us? Or should we stick to an analytical, report-like format?</p>
<p>I’d think you should make it personal, in first-person. It’s not a report. It’s a topic that matters to you. The whole point for this essay is for G’Town to get to know you. If you make it like a report and stick to a third person message, it’s far from personal. But, then again, this is just my opinion.</p>
<p>I added in the word “I” for only one sentence explaining exactly how I got interested in the topic. I feel the rest of my essay exhibited enough passion for the topic to show why I consider it important. (it was on terrorist drug peddling in an unexpected place that has killed 30,000+ people and at a certain point controlled 80% of a continent’s drug market)</p>