5 Tips for Writing Awards Essays
STUDENT AWARDS PROGRAM
With almost $4 million dollars in student awards, scholarships, bursaries and other types of funding, it is always in your best interest to log in to our student awards portal and start the application process. When you do, you might notice that many of NSCC’s student awards require an essay as part of the application process. For some of us, writing an essay can seem like a daunting or near impossible task. Use these tips to take the stress out of the essay-writing process.
- Know your toolbox. Take some time to reflect on yourself and your life up until now. Ask yourself what makes you different? What are your strengths? What led you to where you are now? What are your future goals? Sometimes self-reflection can be hard. You may want to consider asking your peers and/or loved ones for input. We can realize a lot about ourselves through the perception of others.
- Toot your own horn. If ever there was an occasion to brag, this is it. List all your accomplishments (big and small) and ask yourself how they impacted you, what skills they helped you develop and how they will contribute to your future.
- Be persuasive. Explain why you’re the most deserving person for the award. Try and make it impossible for the reader to not want to choose you for the award.
- Focus on the content, not the structure. Don’t get too caught up on the structure of the essay. At the end of the day, we just want to hear your story. This can be told through bullet points just as well as it can be through a formally structured essay.
- Seek out support. Connect with the Writing Centre for additional resources and assistance to help with writing your student awards essays.
