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Top 7 MBA Admission Essay Strategies That Go Beyond The Roadmap
Whether or not you decide to work with Nory, please take advantage of all the essay writing tips and tricks in this free e-book. Ultimately, incorporating these tips in your essays could help give you a leg up over your competition and wow your essay reviewers
SAMPLE ESSAYS
We’ll review these essays together using meta-analysis in order for you to completely grasp all of the elements that comprise successful persuasive essays. Doing this will greatly assist you with your composition process and give you ideas for ways to wow your reviewers!
SAMPLE ESSAY 1
- Reapplication Essay Before & After
SAMPLE ESSAY 2
- Leadership Essay With Implied Thesis
SAMPLE ESSAY 3
- Leveraging the Human Interest Story
MBA ADMISSION DEADLINES
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SUPPORTING ARTICLES
| 3 Reasons Why Metaphors Are Powerful | Dr. Peter Fuda, international authority on business and leadership transformation and contributor to the Harvard Business Review, outlines three key reasons that metaphors are powerful catalysts for transformation. |
| Life Metaphors – An Exercise in Creative Thinking | What would be a good metaphor for you to describe the way you experience life right now? Metaphorical thinking has benefits beyond the poetic and aesthetic value of metaphors. Metaphors can improve our understanding and help us solve problems. Find out how. |
| Tricks to Activate Both Sides of the Brain | Though one side of your brain is dominant, a few tricks can activate both hemispheres so you can be both creative and logical. Bangalore Mirror Bureau journalist Anand Holla explains these tips. |
| Memory Joggers | Use these questions and prompts from Kim Kautzer and the New York Times Learning Network to mine your memory for gems to incorporate into your human interest story. |
| Brainstorming Techniques | Whether you are left or right brained, Student Success Coordinator Grace Fleming explains how to find the brainstorming techniques that feel most comfortable to you. |
| Ways to Build Metaphorical Thinking | Interesting ways to exercise both your right and left brains when developing stories. |
| The Science of Storytelling | A good story can make or break a presentation, article, or conversation. But why is that? When Buffer co-founder Leo Widrich started to market his product through stories instead of benefits and bullet points, sign-ups went through the roof. Here he shares the science of why storytelling is so uniquely powerful. |
| Developing Characters | Beth Hill at The Editors Blog provides this powerful list of Habits, Motions, and Common Actions of Fictional Characters that will come in very handy when developing your human interest stories. |
| Onomatopoeia, Alliteration & Assonance | From LiteraryTerms.net: “The wind howled, hissed, and whooshed” is more expressive than “The wind blew.” Onomatopoeias can provide your essay with sound imagery and rhythm which reflect the mood of the composition. Because of that, onomatopoeia is a powerful device that gives your essay a sense of reality so that your reviewers can “hear” your voice, while reading your words. (Article also contains tips on using alliteration and assonance and a BIG list of onomatopoeias to help add interest to your essay!) |
