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The college admission essay, a high-stakes pitch in which applicants have limited words to describe who they are and why campuses should admit them, just got even more stressful for students of color.
Requiring Black students to write about trauma reduces and contorts their colorful lives into flat narratives, writes Aya Waller-Bey.
Secondary students are taught structured essay formats to improve their writing skills; admission essays are often used by universities in selecting applicants, and in the humanities and social sciences essays are often used as a way of assessing the performance of students during final exams.
An admissions or application essay, sometimes also called a personal statement or a statement of purpose, is an essay or other written statement written by an applicant, often a prospective student applying to some college, university, or graduate school. The application essay is a common part of the university and college admissions process.
In college essays, students are asked to write about themselves while still following a specific rubric. Colleges still expect their students to provide proper grammar, tone, punctuation, syntax, etc., but there is no way of sensing a student's individuality through that making it counterproductive (Davilia 163).
The headlines about college legacy admissions policies have been coming fast and furious in recent weeks—a not unexpected byproduct of the Supreme Court ruling that race-conscious admissions ...
Some researchers include a metacognitive component in their definition. In this view, the Dunning–Kruger effect is the thesis that those who are incompetent in a given area tend to be ignorant of their incompetence, i.e., they lack the metacognitive ability to become aware of their incompetence.
Academic writing often features prose register that is conventionally characterized by "evidence...that the writer(s) have been persistent, open-minded and disciplined in the study"; that prioritizes "reason over emotion or sensual perception"; and that imagines a reader who is "coolly rational, reading for information, and intending to formulate a reasoned response."