Most types of essays, whether they are for academic purposes, for a scholarship or for admission to an educational institution, tend to have one common goal, which is to please those who read them. That is why it is really important to know how to write a good essay. In the case of scholarship and admission essays, your readers need to know about you and they need to feel pleased about what they read. From your first written words, the reader should be made to feel you are someone they want to learn more about. So you should take every opportunity to describe all your assets. By the time they get to the end of your essay, the reader should feel privileged to have met such a great individual and they should be eager to provide you with whatever you are applying for. That is how powerful professional writing can be.
To satisfy your academic readers, it is important to 1) learn about the institution you are applying to and its values, 2) decide which of your characteristics best fit with the values of the institution, and 3) emphasize those qualities in your essay. You should demonstrate your best qualities both in direct and indirect ways through the medium of your academic writing. For instance, if you are applying to a science college that wants people who are interested in science, you could describe a specific study or experiment you have undertaken or would like to undertake, and you should indicate that you have found such work enjoyable in the past and would welcome the opportunity to do more in the future. This would demonstrate the real interest that particular establishment is looking for.
In all good essays, the writer would generally enthrall their reader(s) by instilling in them appreciation of something that is truly pure, good or exceptionally beautiful. It is worth noting that when you really believe that something is genuinely pure, good or exquisitely beautiful, you can depend on your own appreciation of that item to explain why you think it is so. In any case, why would you waste your time writing about something that doesn’t interest you? Your reader is unlikely to be interested if you are not. That is part of the secret of how to write a good essay.
The idea of bringing delight to a reader in a good college essay implies that you are 1) introducing them to something that is magnificent and 2) demonstrating why that thing is magnificent. For instance, if you think the scenery in a movie is amazing, try and get your reader to envisage what that scenery is like and emphasize the most delightful parts. If, perhaps, you are riveted by the way the plot in a thriller continues to be exciting to the end, reconstruct that excitement and draw attention to what causes such anticipation. If you believe an author is right about some theory, describe how significant the problem is and demonstrate how the writer has developed a practical solution.
When writing an essay, you may want your reader(s) to be happy with the work you have done thus far, in their business dealings with you, or with a specific product or service you provide. With writing a resume, there is some similarity to an admissions essay insofar as you want the audience to be interested in you. Writing an advertisement means you want the audience to become attracted to a product or service you are promoting. The reader is not likely to continue if they lose interest. A scholarly essay will be read because it must be read but a resume can be discarded. The goal of many business essays is to solve some problem or to attempt to build better customer relationships. So, as you can see, there is a technique to writing a good essay, and this is an art you should try and master if you are to succeed in any endeavor.
