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Illustration/Example Essay Prompt: agree with it in an essay developed by using multiple and extended examples. Please note that this essay will be written in third person point of view and cannot use any outside sources.
- Develop an enticing title.
- Use the introduction to pull the reader into your singular experience by introducing the problematic situation.
- Avoid addressing the assignment directly. (Don’t write, “I am going to write about my most significant experience”—this takes the fun out of reading the work!)
- Think of things said at the moment this experience started for you—perhaps use a quote, or an interesting part of the experience that will grab the reader.
- Let the essay reflect your own voice. (Is your voice serious? Humorous? Matter-of-fact?)
- Try to organize the essay in a way that may capture the reader by mixing multiple and extended examples, but don’t string the reader along too much with “next, next, next.”
- To avoid just telling what happens. SHOW your reader what happened describing vivid examples and incorporating testimony. Make sure you take time to reflect on why this experience is significant.
- Write in third person, and avoid the use of I, we, our, us, me, you, your, and yours.
- Outside sources including websites, articles, books, brochures, interviews, etc., are not allowed.7. Submitted as either a .doc, or .docx, file with your first and last name in the file name.
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