F u l f i l l i n g t h e A s s i g n m e n t
The essay assignments found on college applications, AP Exams, and the SAT and
ACT are the product of con-
siderable study and research. They are designed to elicit essays that fulfill a specific need. Colleges need to know
more about you in order
to make admissions decisions, so they ask you to write about personal issues. The ACT
and SAT writing tests are designed to give colleges and universities a better idea of your writing aptitude. Even your
high school teacher, when he or she
hands out an essay assignment, is looking for something specific.
You may think that writing about something other than what’s assigned portrays you as an independent
thinker, someone who can come up with ideas and doesn’t need to be told what to do. But that’s not
the message
you’d be sending. If you’re doing your own thing and avoiding the topic, you’re telling your readers that you don’t
care about what they want, you don’t
understand the topic, or you don’t know enough about the assigned mate-
rial to write about it.
Fulfilling
the assignment, on the other hand, sends a positive message to readers. It tells them that:
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