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Lesson Four: Style and Tone
 Introduction
Over the years, our editors have seen some amazing
stories become dreadfully boring and some ridiculously dry topics transform into an
exciting read. The culprit (or hero): writing style. Witness the advice of some admissions
officers:
Use a conversational style and
easy-to-understand language to project a genuine, relaxed image.
Make sure that your essay is readable.
Don’t make us work. Give your essay momentum-make sure that the parts work together
and move to a point, carrying the reader along.
Don’t bore us. More often it is the
monotonous style, and not the subject matter, that makes these essays dull.
A large majority of the corrections made by
our editors fall into one of five categories: sentence variety,
word choice, verb tense, transitions and essay clichés.
If you weren’t paying attention in English class, here’s a refresher…
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From
ESSAYS THAT WILL GET YOU INTO COLLEGE, by Amy Burnham, Daniel Kaufman, and Chris Dowhan.
Copyright 1998 by Dan Kaufman. Reprinted by arrangement with Barron's Educational
Series, Inc.
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