Choose a topic from your personal knowledge and experience. Remember that you must utilize
your first-hand experience to prove your authority to write on a topic. Purely generalized and/or
factual information is not acceptable.
€¢ Write in your own words, from your perspective or point of view, using the pronoun I.
€¢ Capture your reader’s attention with an interesting introductory paragraph.
€¢ Use specific examples from your personal experience.
€¢ Use concrete or vivid words.
€¢ Use complete sentences, varying your sentence length and structure.
€¢ Use fully developed paragraphs, where each paragraph has only one main idea with enough
supporting details to develop that idea clearly and logically.