Lesson One: Tackling the Question Lesson Two: Brainstorming a Topic Lesson Three: Structure and Outline Lesson Four: Style and Tone Lesson Five: Intros and Conclusions Lesson Six: Editing and Revising		Application Essay Writing 101 Improve Your College Application Essay at EssayEdge.com! Let Harvard-Educated editors give you an edge!   The application is a lifeless thing--a few sheets of paper and a few numbers. The essay is the best way to breathe life into it. - Admissions Officer Welcome to EssayEdge’s Admissions Essay writing course. After editing tens of thousands of admissions essays for applicants, we created the ultimate course for students seeking an extra edge in the ultra-competitive college and graduate school application process. The course contains six lessons and over 100 pages of content. Each of the lessons should help you with a different portion of the essay.  Enter the course by clicking a link below or to the left. Lesson One: Tackling the Question Question-specific strategies and samples of various types of  questions with comments by admissions officers: College Business School Law School Medical School EssayEdge Extra: Who's reading my essay? Lesson Two: Brainstorming and Selecting an Essay Topic Brainstorming worksheet Selecting a Topic: Do's and don'ts with comments by experienced admissions officers EssayEdge Extra: One essay, multiple applications Lesson Three: Structure and Outline Descriptions and examples of five popular essay structures Sample outline and essay Strategies and examples of short essays Templates, severe writer's block cure Lesson Four: Style and Tone Sentence variety with exercise Word choice: Common pitfalls Transitions: Improving flow Verbs: Active voice vs. Passive voice Active or Passive? Verb quiz Making sentences active voice, an exercise Essay cliches: Top 10 essay cliches  EssayEdge Extra: Trimming the Fat - Reducing wordiness Lesson Five: Introductions and Conclusions Descriptions, examples, and critiques of nine popular styles of introduction Conclusions: Do's and don'ts EssayEdge Extra: No Introduction??!! Lesson Six: Editing and Revising Paying attention to substance, structure, interest, and proofreading Actual essay gaffes (funny) Final steps EssayEdge Extra: To title or not to title   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.