1. A tip the writer wrote was to "Be sure your essay is about something you care strongly enough about to wax eloquent and passionate about it." That way you can create an essay interesting enough to hold people's interest as they read it.
2. When writing an essay, show the readers the emotions and the story rather than telling them.
3. - Make connections. If you're writing about a global theme (poverty, unemployment, child abuse) bring the subject closer to home by relating it to specific, individual examples.
- Employ all the senses. Using sight comes naturally to most writers; push harder to convey ideas and images through sound, taste, touch and hearing.
- Think of your essay as a camera lens. You might start by describing a fine detail (your personal experience or perspective, a specific moment in the narrative), then open up the lens to take in the wide view (the general/global backdrop), then close the piece by narrowing back to the fine detail. Or go the other way. Start with the wide view, focus in, then open up to the wide view again.
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