Pre-writing
Best to do this for at least 15 minutes before beginning the outline.
What is brainstorming?
Understanding the prompt and responding correctly
What is answering the question?
Going over your paper to check for mistakes.
What is revising?
How many colleges can you apply to? 10, 20, 50, or however many you want.
What are 20 colleges?
The general synopsis of your paper.
What is an outline?
Using your own ideas.
What is being yourself?
Changing grammatical errors in your paper.
What is editing?
All schools require the same information that is why it is called the Common App. True/False
What is False?
Searching and searching again about your paper.
What is research?
Adding imagery, similies, irony etc...
What is using figurative language?
Descriptive words in the essay
What is an adjective?
The Personal Essay/Statement is about how long (word count)?
What are 250-650 words?
The first attempt that is usually critiqued or changed.
What is a rough draft?
Separating ideas in your paper.
What is using paragraphs?
Correct usage of periods, commas, colons, apostrophes etc
What is punctuation?
This section contains where you are from, the language you speak, and the country of citizenship.
What is "Profile?"
Collecting and placing information in the correct spot.
What is organizing your ideas?
Fluidly flowing of ideas.
What is transition?
When the verbs agree with the subject.
What is the verb agreement?
True or False: The Personal Essay/Statement has only 2 different prompts.
What is "False?"