CHAPTER 6 Untimed Essay Writing Strategies 72 5. Skills What are you good at? You may want to ask friends and family members to help
with this. Skills may be those acquired through learning and practice, such as play-
ing an instrument, or personal attributes, such as leadership, or willingness to fol-
low the “road not taken.”
6. Passions What makes your blood boil or your heart beat faster? Is there a sports team you
follow with fervor, a book you have read ten times, a topic of local, national, or global
importance that gets you riled up? You may have listed these in other sections above;
repeat them here because this category examines them from a different point of view.
