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A paragraph from NU essay are the sentences really weird?


chuliuxiang 6-14  Dec 26, 08, 10:54pm  #
I wish to study Biomedical Engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Browsing through the McCormick School web was an inspirational experience. The first headline I saw was "blowing water bubble at low gravity." The associated image enthralled me. Weren't the floating and amorphous liquids in the image a patent granted only to the fantastic, forbidden to and impossible in the reality? Yet there it was, the water bubble that defied gravity, making the magical real. Then one after another, discoveries, ideas and innovations introduced in the McCormick School web page began to bathe my mind in wonder. Carbon nanotube, electronic device that twists, terms familiar and strange, and ideas I had never thought about began to transform my perception of what is reality. The infinity within the simple screen in front of me confirmed the most daring ideal of mankind – nothing is impossible.

HZ (Lucy) Zhao
 
EF_Sean [Moderator] 6-3815  Dec 26, 08, 11:07pm  #
I wouldn't say really weird. Slightly weird, maybe. Often the sentence structures have a poetic quality to them that is quite admirable, but sometimes your word choices prevent the sentences from making as much sense as they could, though your overall meaning is usually clear enough. For instance, in the sentence "Weren't the floating and amorphous liquids in the image a patent granted only to the fantastic, forbidden to and impossible in the reality," you are asking if the liquids are patents, to which the answer is obviously not. Patents are pieces of paper that give someone the commercial right to produce something (which may or may not be a liquid). Also, the word "fantastic" doesn't quite work. The image might indeed have been of something fantastic, but patents are given either to people or to companies that may merely be wealthy enough to afford to fund good research facilities rather than being amazing in any significant sense.

Sean, EssayForum.com
 
chuliuxiang 6-14  Dec 26, 08, 11:17pm  #
oh thanks a lot i will definitly revise the wordings

HZ (Lucy) Zhao
 
chuliuxiang 6-14  Dec 27, 08, 08:34am  #
I wish to study Biomedical Engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Browsing through the McCormick School web was an inspirational experience. The first headline I saw was "blowing water bubble at low gravity." The image of the floating water enthralled me; for a moment, I thought I had entered fantasy. Then one after another, more discoveries, ideas and innovations introduced in the McCormick School web page began to bathe my mind in wonder. Carbon nanotube, electronic device that twists, terms familiar and strange, and ideas I had never thought about began to transform my perception of what is reality. The infinity within the simple screen in front of me confirmed the most daring ideal of mankind – nothing is impossible.

is this more clear? need more suggestions

HZ (Lucy) Zhao
 
EF_Sean [Moderator] 6-3815  Dec 27, 08, 12:58pm  #
The revised version is definitely clearer. You could smooth out the grammar like this:

I wish to study Biomedical Engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Browsing through the McCormick School web inspired me. The first headline I saw was "blowing water bubbles at low gravity," and the image of the floating water enthralled me; for a moment, I thought I had entered a fantasy. Then one after another, more discoveries and innovations introduced in the McCormick School web page began to bathe my mind in wonder. Carbon nanotubes, electronic devices that twist, terms familiar and strange, and many other ideas I had never conceived of began to transform my perception of what reality is. The infinite possibilities highlighted by the images on the screen in front of me confirmed the truth of mankind's boldest belief, that nothing is impossible.

Sean, EssayForum.com
 
chuliuxiang 6-14  Dec 27, 08, 01:39pm  #
wow great advice thanks!

HZ (Lucy) Zhao
 

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