Guide to English Writing

THE WRITE IDEA - Education
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Personal examples:
To illustrate, take my cousin Vincent; after several failed attempts to score well on law school 
admissions tests, he was finally accepted to a program based on his performance at a mock 
court session where the presiding guest judge, a law professor, recognized Vincent’s exceptional 
talent and gave him a chance to demonstrate it at his law school.
To support this idea, I need only look as far as my aunt. After graduating from high school, she 
married her boyfriend and they traveled the world together. While traveling, she learned how 
to write magazine articles and take professional quality photographs. Today, she is a leading 
travel writer for a well-known magazine and makes a very good living despite never having gone 
to college.
My sister is a perfect example of this. At the age of thirty-five she decided that she wanted a 
career change. She went back to school to learn coding and now owns her own business as a 
front-end website developer and has many small businesses as clients. 
My own experience with this is a perfect example. While taking a year off between college and 
high school, I worked to save money to travel. I then spent six months backpacking through Asia 
and met many people who wanted to learn English. I then returned to school and decided to 
major in English so that I could travel the world as an English teacher.
Concrete, real-world examples:
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Co-founder of Apple Inc.; dropped out of college; took a calligraphy course out of 
interest, which led to fonts on Mac; gave a commencement speech to Stanford graduates, told 
them to “stay hungry” follow their passions and that “the only way to do great work is to love 
what you do. If you haven’t found it yet keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the 
heart, you’ll know when you find it.”; school friends were in two groups: those interested in 
electronics and engineering and those interested in the arts and literature.
Khan Academy: 
A free online education platform that uses videos and online materials to 
provide high-quality education to anyone with internet access; a non-profit created in 2006. 
This company aims to help educate the world, especially those who would be unable to better 
themselves through education that would otherwise be unaffordable.