Examples of the Common Application College Essay Format

In any college essay, there are some very general and common examples of the application of the academic essay format. While a good academic essay will describe or summarize a large part of an entire body of knowledge, it is not designed to be a comprehensive guide to every single aspect of the subject matter.

In fact, a good essay should stand on its own as a statement of the audience's present state of mind, rather than as a summation of the subject matter. Therefore, I will start with some examples of the application of the different parts of an essay that is not meant to be a comprehensive guide to the topic.

Example A. The first example is the introduction to the essay. The introduction, for most students, is the first thing that a student thinks about and thus is often the first place to review a college essay.

An introduction is simply a summary of the entire article, with a brief description of the topic. It should touch on one or two topics in the introduction.

This should then be followed by a list of ideas to be used in the rest of the essay, in the form of a chapter list. It should end with a couple of sentences summarizing the whole essay and leading into the conclusion.

Example B. In most college essays, the second section of the essay, titled 'The Conclusion,' is not generally written by the author, but usually by the editor. In this section, a lot of the basic ideas presented in the first part are put into more concrete forms, allowing for a clearer statement of what the final essay should say.

Chapter list is a list of the three or four most important ideas of the first part, and then how these relate to the final argument presented. While many college students believe that an essay must be complete before they offer their opinions, this is not true.

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