Choose a topic from your personal knowledge and experience. Remember that you must utilizeyour first-hand experience to prove your authority to write on a topic. Purely generalized and/orfactual information is not acceptable. Write in your own words from your perspective or point of view using the pronoun I. Capture your readers attention with an interesting introductory paragraph. Use specific examples from your personal experience. Use concrete or vivid words. Use complete sentences varying your sentence length and structure. Use fully developed paragraphs where each paragraph has only one main idea with enoughsupporting details to develop that idea clearly and logically. Write a total of 750 to 2500 words on your topic. (If your essay is typed and double-spaced yourfinal draft should be between three and ten pages.