If you're from Germany and want to study English that a good enough reason for me. Talk about wanting to understand history, culture and the nuisance of the language to be more marketable in the global economy (or be unemployed because you ended up majoring in a liberal arts program that has no terminal end at graduation...). The University of Illionois's English Department's program will allow me to do that by a, b c....
I had to take a technical writing course at A&M. The person I'm referring to wasn't going to A&M so no idea whether such a course was a requirement at his school. He wasn't bad to the point of dropping in LOL's and OMG's, but the concept of actually having to type out "in other words" as opposed to IOW was lost on him.
You need to just drop that first sentence altogether. 300 words does not give you enough time to run through the whole vague to specific then specific to vague spiel that you normally do in the intro and conclusion paragraphs of a traditional essay.
Also, future English major, you have GOT to get someone to proofread your stuff before you turn in this essay, and give yourself enough time to make major edits. You're ending sentences with prepositions, using incorrect pronouns, switching verb tenses within the same paragraph ... it's a mess.
Discussing "decisions" isn't anything that is going to set you apart from all of the other students who are making the SAME decision. If you are trying to stand out, you need to talk about something that everyone and their mothers aren't talking about. Try another angle - like why do you want to study English? Do you have an interest in a particular style/subject/etc? Have you written major papers in the past from which you can draw experience about performing in depth research? How have your previous academic achievements prepared you for university study? How have your extracurricular activities and community involvement prepared you for college life?
what's with all the ing commas and passive voice sentence structure? Grow a pair of balls and write.
We never had an explicit technical writing requirement, but every single programming project I ever did in a CS class (even the freshman stuff) required two pretty extensive manuals: one for users and one for maintainers, as well as do entation of every module, class, and public procedure. Sometimes analysis of runtimes of functions and memory usage too. Of course any non-programming project was a technical paper. Is it not standard for engineering students to do a lot of writing? I never took anything in mechanical eng. and very little in EE outside of the CS requirements, so it could be different there though.
Never anything like this?
Code:/** * This function is O(N^2), LOL. FIXME LMAO */ void foo(int *A, int N, int D) { do stuff do hard thing // wtf? if (8==D) { do more stuff } }
This Gutter kid HAS to be trolling. If he isn't and he gets into UofI I will have lost all faith in our higher education system.
even if your not applying for a literature major or something alike, grammars are still somethings you should pay serious attention to imho. just pm kori your essay when it's done, i think she will be kind enough to check it for you tbh. kori is a pro writer who makes a living of writing imo.
truly
Why major in English?
um.... 'cause I hear'd it's a mighty-fine prefession.
Its either English or History, and I'm not very good at History.
No offense, but the fact that you aren't being specific with what you are intending to do as an English major shows that you haven't even considered possible career paths--thus showing that you aren't ready for college (whatever ins ution you end up going to)
Or am I wrong?
What are your intentions as an English Major?
1) Write in an active voice. Every sentence: [subject][verb][sentence][noun] if you can: I experienced an intense, emotional growing period during my senior year of high school.
I introduced my brother to his future wife at a football game.
I destroyed an entire planet with my death star.
2) Be specific. Get an idea of one or two events (if they are linked very easily) that you think are the most interesting, and write about those. No one gives a about your life story, they want to hear what makes you special, nothing else.
3) Don't go over the limit by more than a sentence or two. Cut every passive, vague sentence out. Use lots of adjectives to make your story's environment easily imaginable.
Good luck.
Honestly, I don't know why people major in English... It's not a very good major, unless you seek employment as a teacher, or you continue to pursue a masters.
I heard Law school is a good post option. But I wouldn't know, I'm not an english major.
Post was intended for original poster, my mistake.
Darn, my computer is acting up.
Hate to break it to you but you're not very good at English either.
I feel bad if you're not actually trolling for my last comment but I can't help myself if I feel like Manny Ramirez when I see a hanging curve like that.
just ing study like a mother er. you, of all people, will need to study.
This is the weakest I've ever heard, if you don't have any life changing experiences to write about and make this college app essay interesting, then I'd suggest writing about your professional intentions. Perhaps write about a famous english writer or some . What you have begun to write points to the fact that you lived an UNGODLY boring life with no character building experiences.
"Me, my brother, and our friend.."
you sure you want to be an English major?
Study physics or chemistry, then you'll have a reason to kill yourself like I currently do. (pata pata pata pshhh [drum roll]......emo)
I take that back, I want a job after I graduate.
I remember one time, for example, that I had to decide between a chocolate and a vanilla ice-creamed scoop. rest-assured, the decision was very hard for myself to make all by myself. I picked a strawberry-flavored scoop of iced-cream to enjoy. These hard decisions make me qualified to be your number one, star English-speaking student.
Wow, if this is a troll attempt, The poster has definitely exceeded at it.
If only their was a Bachelor of Arts in Trolling degree.
I belong in your university because I, myself righteously chose between the moral quandary of buying a cat or dog. I bought the cat because it's less expensive and saves my parents some cash. I qualify as one of your potential students because I saved my parents some money. Decisions like these enable me to become a strong candidate for a position in your ins ution.
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