Harvard Essays

What does a Harvard essay look like…what would be considered an “A”? There are many books that teach you how to write a good essay. I’m always interested in those too but, coupled with such resources, an example of several essays would have made the points much stronger. In the time that I have been studying at Harvard, I discovered that it was mostly the ‘intense thought of reasoning’ that is important. Writing clearly, obviously, is very important - like Epictetus once said, “Don’t write to be understood…write so that you cannot possibly be misunderstood”.