Senior School, San Francisco, CA

How to Get Through to Blue Sky

Do: 1. Talk about the “big picture”- the grand design . 2. Draw diagrams to illustrate your ideas. 3. Show how everything fits together . 4. Explain your case logically and systematically . 5. Emphasize the strength of your logical rationale .

Don’t: 1. Get stuck in the details .

2. Wander off into other subjects or irrelevant concerns. 3. Argue from philosophical or metaphysical appeals. 4. Build your case on hunches or speculative information. 5. Overuse emotional terminology.