Admissions Essay Style and Tone: Sentence Variety

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Sentence Variety

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Inexperienced writers tend to use longer, more complex sentences because they think they demonstrate intelligence. In contrast, strong writers know that a point is most forceful when it is conveyed concisely and directly. Although the purpose of this section is to teach you to improve your sentence variety, we also want you to be aware that simplicity should be your ultimate goal. Sophisticated thoughts will require complex sentences, but you should never complicate a simple idea for the sake of creating more intricate sentences.

Does this mean that the best essay will consist of all simple sentences? Of course not. We stress this point only because most people have a tendency to start with sentences that are more complex than necessary, because ideas do not formulate themselves in our minds in the clearest, most direct structure. The best-written essays will feature steady variation in sentence length—but with no sentences forced into a more complex mode.