When you’re writing about career goals especially, but also when answering other MBA essay questions too, it’s almost always best to go more specific than you have been doing. We can say that without even seeing any drafts you’ve written because hardly anyone goes specific — like, at all. Premium content starts here… If you’re […]
Continue reading...Watch for throat-clearers (and apparently wan intensifiers? whatever they are?)
If you look for it, writing help is available everywhere. Just read sentences. Consume written material, especially material that’s been professionally edited. (Note: The EssaySnark blahg is not in the category! The writing here is in a colloquial style — that word means “informal or conversational” which is not quite the right tone you want […]
Continue reading...($) Writing tip from the trenches: “When something feels forced…”
Writing MBA essays is haaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrdddddddd. It’s highly unlikely that you’ve ever done this type of writing before. After an extended back-and-forth exchange with a BSer about the way they were coming across — tone, content, all of the things — they gave us this short comment: I’m learning through this process that when something feels […]
Continue reading...Do you really use that word?
Along the lines of “stuff we often say in essay reviews” we’ll offer this advice: Write like you speak. (Not like you text, though! There should be no &s and abbreviations and acronyms and shortcuts in essays.) Words like “partaking” are odd. Do you use this type of language in everyday speech? A less obvious […]
Continue reading...Simple writing suggestions to make your essay more readable.
There are multiple levels of revision that need to go into a good MBA essay. Obviously the most important is the content strategy. That’s what we focus on with the Essay Decimator MBA essay review service, and it’s also why we have the App Accelerators, which are purpose-built services dedicated to helping you nail down […]
Continue reading...($) Another warning about tone.
The subtitle of this post may as well be: Don’t be a jerk. 🙁 Or put less snarkily: It’s kinda important for you to come across as a decent human being in your apps. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends.
Continue reading...Practice on this sentence.
You’re not the only one who struggles to put together clear sentences. Case in point, we offer this from an article on how we’re totally doomed plankton in the ocean: From the article: An Edinburgh-based research team fears plankton, the tiny organisms that sustain life in our seas, has all but been wiped […]
Continue reading...Super Secret SnarkStrategy: How to write a multidimensional essay
The most sophisticated essays are ones where the reader reveals information about herself through the way she tells a story. Here’s an example: In a “mistake” essay, the Brave Supplicant is trying to explain to the reader how she screwed up on a project, and she inserts the line “One reason that I was rushed...
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($) Beware the buzzword.
Or maybe this post should be titled, Behold the Buzzword! Because when BSers discover such things as buzzwords, they become preternaturally attracted to them. Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends. Beware the buzzword. You don’t want it to bite you in the behind.
Continue reading...($) What do these things have in common?
Stanford’s Touchy-Feely Booth’s Why are you here and not somewhere else Harvard’s case study Premium content starts here… ———– ———– Premium content ends.
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