Tactic 1
But the close is where most students fail, they try to take their essay to Mount Olympus, and issue some earth shattering realization, a revelation, or a mission statement in stentorian tones.
EMBRACE UNDERSTATEMENT "Still I can point to one of two things I have definitely learned by being hard up.... That is a beginning"
Orwell, Down and Out in Paris London
Comments: That is how he ends. If Orwell ends his novel on a grueling first-hand experience with poverty in such understatement tones, be smart and follow his lead in your college essay.