UT Austin- Person of Influence Essay Snowboarding

This is the prompt: Choose an issue of importance to you-the issue could be personal, school related, local, political, or international in scope-and write an essay in which you explain the significance of that issue to yourself, your family, your community, or your generation.

I want to write an essay about snowboarding but have no idea how to start? Does anyone have any suggestions?

I took a few writing classes and got numerous tips on how to to start papers, they are activities that allow you to "brain-storm" which I strongly believe you to do.

* Looping ; you write down 10 things you like / know about "snowboarding" . then write down a list of 10 things you dislike or can improve about that. Then you circle one that stands out the most in each list , circle it & write two different paragraphs on it. Once you got two paragraphs read over them , underline your most powerful phrase and start another paragraph w/ that phrase , and continue over and over again till you get what you want .

* SnapShots ; you jot down descriptions of what you remember from snowboarding , it should include taste , smell , sound , touch , sight and be full of detail. Then you want to reflect off of what you wrote and answer questions like how old were you? what is the significance of this to you? what didn't you understand that you'd do differently now? why is this important? what's there to learn from? how will it continute to affect you and so on.

they've worked for me on numerous papers I've had to write, good luck!