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Kevin Martin's guide offers 23 essential tips for crafting a compelling Common App essay and avoiding common traps. Learn how to choose the right topic, develop strong storytelling, eliminate vague language, and stop overediting. With a blend of strategic insight and stylistic guidance, this resource helps students write clearer, stronger, and more authentic UT undergraduate admissions essays.
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0:00 | Common App Main Essay Introduction
1:23 | 1. Understand the goal of college essays
3:01 | 2. Essay questions are an invitation to write
4:14 | 3. Your Main Essay doesn't need to do everything
4:56 | 4. Content distribution among essays
5:58 | 5. Experiment with initial drafts
7:37 | 6. Share stories
8:50 | 7. Avoid lingering introductions & conclusions
12:17 | 8. Don't move too fast
13:20 | 9. Illustrate, don't tell
15:57 | 10. Always illustrate food & culture
18:10 | 11. Minimize "lessons learned"
19:28 | 12. Humanize others-centered content
21:04 | 13. Avoid hyperbole & cliché / don't try-hard
23:20 | 14. Rhetorical devices
25:35 | 15. Tone
27:18 | 16. Minimize dependent clauses
29:32 | 17. Simple sentences are your friend
30:14 | 18. Convert from passive to active voice
31:46 | 19. Substitute be-verbs
32:46 | 20. Remove superfluous modifiers
33:54 | 21. Minimize obscure language
35:05 | 22. Don't "decide to" do something
36:06 | 23. Avoid overediting