Tham khảo tài liệu 'write better essays in just 20 minutes a day phần 5', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | A Word of Advice When writing a college application essay remember that regardless of the topic the essay needs to reveal something personal about you. Writing an essay about your sister in response to the prompt Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you and describe that influence is fine. However you need to avoid the common pitfall of that prompt which is to write about the person and not about yourself. The writer of the sister essay needs to relate her sister s story to herself not simply explain why her sister is the person she admires most. The best kind of support for this essay will be description and anecdote a series of snapshots and stories that illustrate the sister s strength. Here s an example Amy s job with the Division of Youth and Family Services is incredibly stressful. Every day for the past five years she has visited families who are struggling with addiction abuse poverty and hopelessness. One family has been in the system for a decade cycling through the same problems without resolution. But instead of burning out Amy s compassion and resolve have increased. She visits this family weekly and is available to them almost 24 hours a day if a crisis arises. Once she was awakened at three in the morning when the teenager in this family failed to come home. She got in her car and drove to their apartment then called the police and helped them file a missing persons report. And this is just one family under her watch. Similarly to support the assertions that searches of students lockers and backpacks should not be allowed you could describe a search in which a student was unfairly accused and blamed for a crime. The following description appeared in a law journal article about such as case Wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and flip-flops Sam Mazza looked dejected as he made his first court appearance. He was facing three years in prison for a crime he says was intended as a private joke. His spirits appeared to lift however when .
