Essay Topic Selection

Daniel is completing University Entrance Essays. We have looked for advice on this and an excerpt from an article to help students prepare their essays for the original MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) includes the following, which has relevance to you:

So let me save you the trouble of buying any of those books and close by quoting Kurt Vonnegut's seven rules for writing well, which are as applicable to college applications as they are to writing everything else: 

1. Find a subject you care about.
2. Do not ramble, though.
3. Keep it simple.
4. Have the guts to cut.
5. Sound like yourself.
6. Say what you mean to say.
7. Pity the readers.

Specificity, clarity, and brevity are your keys. Use them to unlock the writer inside you.

Source:  http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how-to-write-a-college-essay