Effective Scholarship Writing

Typically speaking, the scholarship essays which students turn in are, well, to put it mildly, not that good. I'm going to generalize, but you should know this. They're typically boring, underdeveloped without sufficient details, and very unpersuasive. Remember, the scholarship essay is a piece of persuasion. The people reviewing your essay will be going through a bunch of applications, and you need to distinguish yourself. You need to make the reader care. You might be saying to yourself, “I’m not the best writer” and “There are certainly better writers out there.” You might be right but that doesn’t mean that you can’t win the scholarship and it doesn’t mean you can’t write a more persuasive scholarship essay even though your sentences might not be as perfect and pretty as the next person. How to be persuasive? Be real. Adopt a voice which is true to who you are. Does this mean that you should lapse into swear words and misspellings? No, of course not, but be truthful and real in your essay. It might be helpful to do a little freewriting to create material easily and rapidly for your essay. What is freewriting?

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