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案例分析题Question: My child has great ideas, but is horrible at spelling and grammar. How much can I help clean up the essays
Answer: If your child lets you read his or her college essay, you can certainly help correct spelling as well as offer suggestions on grammar. In fact, I recommend it. It’s not OK, however, to write your child’s essay or hire someone to do so.
When assisting your child on their application, it can be difficult to determine the line between providing useful help and giving your child an unfair boost. Here’s my brief approach to how much—and in what way—to help your child.
-First of all, kids learn by doing, and too much parental assistance can leave your child unable to function when he’s off on his own at college. So when deciding how to help your child, the key question to consider is, "How can I help my child gain the skills to live a more fulfilled, effective life" That means thinking beyond just the college essay and looking at other aspects of your child’s education.
With that question as your guide, go ahead and help your child on the essay. Help them understand the principles of writing an essay for a certain audience. Help them learn how to spell better. Help them become a better writer with the understanding that it just so happens that being a good writer is really useful on the college essay.
College admission officers take into account the environment a student is raised in and are good at picking out students who have integrated the skills that will really help them thrive versus those who just happened to receive a lot of help on their application.
There’s a subtle but important difference when a student receives help only from trying to gain entry into a college versus the student who receives help trying to gain more skills as a writer.
I’d rather read the essay of the student who is striving to be a better writer and uses the college essay as an opportunity to showcase their writing versus the student who’s initial ideas have been polished to perfection by a team of outside advisors.
My hunch is that college admission officers can tell the difference, and would much rather read the authentic essay as well.
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