His essay, of course, is written with his usual passion and conviction, but, in the real world, passion and conviction do not count for many marks.
Don't think any of your opinions are too extreme; as long as you have evidence to back it up, you can say what you want - within reason and context of the essay of course.
It's more ordered than Montaigne's Essays, of course.
The essays, of course, are terrific -- as are Carver's hard-nosed book reviews.
Maybe the serious applicant ought to ditch the weekly SAT tutor for a weekly stand-up comedy workshop; maybe irreverence is the fashion-forward look for next year's college essay, unless, of course, the way to go is with a backlash essay, heavy on big issues.
Back in 2004, Daniel Okrent, the first ombudsman at The Times, wrote a column under the headline, "Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?" The sly first sentence of his essay was: "Of course it is".
Of course he wrote the occasional little essay, and of course as an intelligent man, he did ad-lib.
[I am indebted to Isaac Oates and Andy Stewart for their help with this essay, though of course any errors are my own.].
(This essay is, of course, all about quibbling).
The one thing I didn't prep for at all was the essay so, of course, it was the first thing we had to do.
If the simple three factions theory were correct, we would expect this linguistic classification to yield three series of ten essays (allowing, of course, for the seven essays now lost), and, ideally, to coincide with the division of the essays into "upper," "middle," and "lower" series.
