Sentence examples for decent essay from inspiring English sources

But alas, although I had a glowing reference, wrote a decent essay, and am actually a playwright whose work has been performed (attracting an encouraging review in the Guardian).

However, a self-defining "story?" I would bet the house that with the ambiguity of that word, a vast majority of applicants could respond with a decent essay.

Kathy Caprino's "7 Crippling Parenting Behaviors that keep Children from Growing into Leaders," published online on January 16, 2014 in Forbes, is a decent essay on the ever-morphing and time-adjusting true North all parents seek -- or should.

Sadly, I had a student who could not write a decent essay at the college level, but miraculously (or with a "little bit of help" from his father), he turned in a beautiful research essay that helped him get a C in the class.

Make it controversial and thought provoking, like "The two party political system has brought corruption to America," (obvious but thought provoking can be pulled off in a decent essay).

At his Nottingham rally someone thrust into my hand a copy of JA Hobson's influential classic, Imperialism (1902) whose 2011 edition contains Jeremy's own perfectly decent introductory essay.

It is a real disincentive for students to put the time and energy into decent quality essays for scholarships when this is the case.

It seemed like decent fodder for a personal essay and enough external motivation to actually get things done.

Nearly three decades after essaying a pretty decent camp cult villain in The Lost Boys, Sutherland would make for an assured Pennywise.

Yet this piece stands up more as a decent slab of journalistic research and essay than anything else.

But if we keep expecting students who can't construct decent sentences to magically produce coherent essays, we'll remain a nation of lousy writers forever.