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Seniors in high school are given the daunting task of writing multiple papers that fall into the genre of the college admission essay. To help guarantee a strong paper and admittance into college, students must first identify location. What are they trying to accomplish and what is the college looking for? <\/span><\/p>\n

Most universities ask the student to write about their accomplishments, struggles, and interests in some form or another. Because schools typically ask the same things, it is without a doubt that most students will recycle certain essays they’ve written for other colleges. This demonstrates how writing to these prompts is somewhat formulaic and that college admission essays universally ask the same generic questions. Because of this repetitiveness, students will unknowingly practice what Kerry Dirk teaches in her essay \u201cNavigating Genres\u201d. Dirk encourages writers to study previous works of the same genre before attempting to write on it. A lot of students do this. They find examples from online and look for resources explaining how they are supposed to approach the prompts. <\/span><\/p>\n

Not only do these prompts ask for the same things, they also require students to answer them in a specific fashion. Students must either decide to write argumentative or reflective essays based on the question being imposed. They must use a certain tone and certain vocabulary that demonstrates their competence and credibility. They must satisfy the word limit that helps to keep the essay at a certain length. All of these are taken into consideration by the college admissions team to help them differentiate between the students who qualify versus the students who don\u2019t. Overall, college admissions essays are without a doubt their own genre and writing to them successfully requires knowledge of location and understanding of what the university is looking for in their students. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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