请教Cornell essay一题

JonFrank

Hi, Jon, the information is very useful for me. But I was wondering how you define "creative". I searched J. Maarten Troost but couldn't find table of contents. Could you provide a link or briefly demonstrate his works? High appriciate!

-- by 会员 yoshimihoku (2010/10/1 21:20:47)

Hey there!  Yes of course, I would be happy to share some examples of creativity in this context.  One easy way to be creative would be to talk about the future.  That would be the part of your book where, for example, you switch to fiction.  Could be neat to write an account of your future, when it hasn’t happened yet.  Another way to be creative here is to come up with an interesting title for the book.  And perhaps if you only are doing your life to date, 25-30 years or so, that could be “volume one of three” or something.  Ha!  That could be fun.  Or…perhaps you could use some small pictures in the book?  Small icons at every chapter?  You could maybe write it in shakespearian English.  Well that’s a stretch.  But you get the idea—they WANT you to be creative.  That’s why they didn’t ask you the same stupid question everyone else did…

Good luck my friends!


Jon Frank

JonFrank

Thanks Jon! do you have any specific example?

-- by 会员 moonwalker (2010/10/1 23:05:33)

See above my friend—I just came up with a few!  J

yoshimihoku

Very specific and helpful. Thank you so much!

pawpawbear

看个人了，我写的是全是标题。抽象的让它去猜吧。。半句说明都没有。哈哈。但是你的标题要能大概2-3个words连接起来讲一个故事。想象你做了个PPT，每一张的标题连续读下来大概能知道这ppt讲什么的。

yoshimihoku

“标题要能大概2-3个words连接起来讲一个故事”是什么意思呀？

megachaoren

估计PAWPAW说的就是你的每个BULLET POINT都要讲到点，但是每个BULLET不要太长。
我的ESSAY是每个CHAPTER的TITLE下面用一句话介绍内容。所以很明显对于格式CORNELL没有PREFERENCE,主要是你的故事内容是否吸引人

砂糖橘子汁

这篇实在是有点晕，请教大家，是内容上creative，但格式上还要保持table of contents那种吗？难道还要有页码？

megachaoren

这篇实在是有点晕，请教大家，是内容上creative，但格式上还要保持table of contents那种吗？难道还要有页码？

-- by 会员 砂糖橘子汁 (2010/11/19 21:39:18)

不需要页码。 格式随便，很多同学也没有按照完全TOC的格式。