Demonstrates your ability to communicate in writing
Is informative
1. Describe yourself
2. Highlight most interesting part of Sr. Project
3. Reflection on significance of Sr. project Experience
4. Arrive @ a universal idea, conclusion, philosophical idea -- why we are here, what is life about, what is the point -- something significant about the human experience stuff.
Main Parts
1st - Strong lead paragraph - Decision for choosing Sr. Project
Autobiographical incident - narration
- Verbs, adverbs, nouns, adjectives
- Words that appeal to the 5 senses - objective
- Communicates: strengths, passions, talents, interest, achievements, experience, goals, dreams, dreams that brought you to this project
- Honest and personal
Logic - exposition
- Rhetorical questions
- Wondering
- Series of questions with answers
- Each answer is a small part of the epiphany
- Work your way logically toward an epiphany
- This paragraph communicates your ability to learn from a significant experience - questioning, investigation, curiosity
Persuasion of authenticity of thread
- Confident statement about life
- Realization that is beyond yourself
- An idea that shows you have moved past your narrow, provincial, close-minded world of Del Oro and Loomis
- This paragraph is aggressive and confident
- This paragraph demonstrates the validity of your Sr. Project exp., not mindless BS, propaganda or immature teenage angst.
Identify in margins the following:
- Words that appeal to 5 senses
- Personal info about yourself (write specific words that describe the personal things you have communicated)
- Rhetorical questions
- Parts of epiphany
- Epiphany
- Universal idea
- Explanation of universal idea
