It’s Day 2 of WRITING WEEK on the EssaySnark blahg! In case you missed our starting post: Don’t cheat your reader. Today we’ll talk about combining essay-writing strategy and tactics. When you have hardly any space in a bschool essay, you need to make every word count. Seems obvious, right? If it were, then we […]
Continue reading...($) If you really wanna do a good job on those essays, do this.
EssaySnark writes. Like, a lot. You may have noticed that there’s a blahg post that goes up here every weekday. We’ve been consistent with that for many years running now. We also have a slew of essay guides available for your reading pleasure. Somebody’s gotta write that stuff. That somebody is us. So we can...
($) Writing about accomplishments in bschool essays
Even if a school doesn’t directly ask you to talk about your accomplishments in their essay questions, you should still be looking for that angle when you start to answer the prompt. This is true for Harvard’s essay, and for Darden’s. It’s especially true for MIT and Stanford, who have whole questions designed around the...
Just. Be. You.
Sigh. It’s happening. Happening again, or already happening. EssaySnark knows not which. Maybe it’s always happening. EssaySnark gets essay after essay after essay that just makes us want to PUKE. Why, oh Brave Supplicant, why? Why the need to write in all this fancy schmancy language, throwing out million dollars words hither and yon? Why...
essay critique: short-term career goals
EssaySnark offers another real essay for your study and edification! This is a classic “first draft.” It exhibits so many of the typical problems. EssaySnark could not resist. “Let the world change you and you can change the world” – Ernesto Che Guevara. This quote was spoken during a movie I recently watched, ‘The Motorcycle...
‘business acumen’
Don’t do it. That’s all EssaySnark will say. EssaySnark knows how tempting it must be. Resist, oh Fateful Traveler, resist! It will lure you. It will call you. Brave Supplicant must be strong! EssaySnark knows it’s hard. EssaySnark knows that Brave Supplicant really truly desires ‘business acumen’ from the bottom of his heart. ‘Business acumen’ […]
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