Tham khảo tài liệu 'how to write a winning scholarship essay_6', luận văn - báo cáo phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 130 How to Write a Winning Scholarship Essay Learning from Failure History has shown that some of our greatest successes have been inspired by failure. Akio Morita s automatic rice cooker was a huge failure and burned the rice it was supposed to boil. In desperation Morita and a partner turned to building cheap tape recorders. From this single product came Sony Corp. Across the ocean a high school coach cut a young varsity football player. That athlete s name was none other than Michael Jordan. The founder of the automobile industry Henry Ford twice filed for bankruptcy before he finally stumbled onto the product that would launch his company the Model T. In keeping with history s tradition we bring you 12 essays that failed. These essays however provide an extremely important lesson they help you learn what not to do. As you read each essay along with our comments you will understand why they fell short of the mark. While you are writing essays keep the lessons from this chapter in mind. These essay writers lost the various competitions in which they entered but at least in doing so they are helping you to avoid the same fate. Where s the Point Reading an essay without a point is like getting on an airplane without knowing where it s going. Yet many students turn in essays without any clear message. Consider the following essay and see if you can locate the message the author is trying to convey Where Has Time Gone As I sit at the lunch table it suddenly hits me. Where has all the time gone I am a senior in high school who is about to graduate in a matter of months and I have just realized that I might never see my friends after we receive our diplomas. Surely we ll see each other at reunions but what will become of the great moments that we have shared Chapter 6 12 Essays That Bombed 131 I will never forget when one of my friends and I were given the responsibility of putting together a class beach party. My friend wasn t a very creative or outgoing person .
