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Is the Expert Rubric Review a part of my subscription?
No, the Expert Rubric Review is an additional cost of only $30 per draft. One of our expert reviewers will closely check your essay against the rubric and provide you with feedback to improve.
I paid for an Expert Rubric Review. How do I submit my essay?
After you purchase your Expert Rubric Review, visit bit.ly/outlinesubmission to submit your essay. Please allow 3-4 days for your feedback. Feedback will be emailed to the email you submitted on the form once completed.
I Have an Admissions Essay I want Substantive Feedback On. Is the Expert Rubric Review a FULL Edit of My Essay?
No. The Expert Rubric Review is a chance for you to get your essay graded by one o four expert reviewers using the rubrics in our software. If you have an admissions essay that you full substantive feedback on, we encourage you to visit S. Montgomery ...
What is the Expert Rubric Review?
The Expert Rubric Review is a chance for you to get your essay reviewed against a rubric by one of our expert reviewers! Our expert reviewers will grade your essay against our rubric to make sure that you are hitting all of the points accurately. ...
How to Use the Interactive Rubric Checker
Your essay will come with an automatic rubric or a rubric selected by your teacher. To check your essay, you will highlight the portion of your essay that corresponds to the rubric criteria. Each selection that meets the criteria receives a green ...
How to Upload My Essay
Once your essay is complete, you can return to your dashboard to upload your essay into our interactive rubric checker. In the blue header, select “Check Your Essay” and upload the file. Your file must be in a .docx format.
Downloading Your Outline
Once you have added all of your details, select the blue “Download Your Outline” button from the bottom right corner. You are now ready to draft your essay! Your essay will be written outside of the software.
How to Add More Details
Once you’re done with transitions, you should now have your full-sentence main points with transition words on the screen. Now, you should add additional points underneath each main point to round out that story. We suggest 2-3 bullet points, ...
How to Remove a Transition
If you decide you want a different transition word from the transition that you originally chose, you can simply drag the transition back to the main transition bank on the right hand side of the screen.
How to Add Transitions
Transitions are a key part of your outline. To add a transition to one of your main points, select “Add Transitions” from the right sidebar. You will then be prompted to either add your own transition or get suggestions from the software. To add ...
How to Create One Sentence Summaries
“Create Your Main Points” will give you space to summarize each story that you chose into its main point. Your main point should be one sentence, typed into the white box under the story. After each story has a main point summary, you are ready to ...
Troubleshooting: The Stories Jump Around When I Try To Sequence More Than Nine Stories
We recommend not adding more than eight stories to your story sequencing. For the purposes of law school personal statements and diversity statements we strongly encourage you to limit the number of stories to no more than 7 or 8 stories. That will ...
Troubleshooting: All of Your Ideas Are Showing Up In One Box When You Are Trying to Create One Sentence Summaries
When you are in sequencing look for this arrow: Click on that arrow to collapse the group: Click the three dots and click ungroup: That should ungroup your sequenced stories and should make them individual boxes on the next screen when you are ...
Troubleshooting: When You Drag Your Stories They Seem to Disappear
When you are dragging and dropping your stories, try to make sure that you are dragging them to the very top of the space, right underneath the progress bar.
How to Drag and Drop Ideas in Order
On the sequencing page you will see all of your favorited stories on the left sidebar and your workspace in the main screen. Here you can drag stories to the workspace to order them. Drop stories immediately above or below another story to group them ...
Proceeding to Sequencing
To proceed to the next step, your progress tracker needs to be green. You must submit 20 ideas to get to 100% and move on to the next step. Once you reach 100%, you can press “Proceed to Sequencing” on the main blue header and get ready to start ...
Favoriting Stories
After you’ve added all your stories to the Dashboard, it’s time to start favoriting the ones you think you’ll use in your essay! Simply click the heart icon in a story box to add a story to your favorites.
How do I find my essays?
If you have several essays on the platform, select the “View Other Essays” tab underneath “Brainstorming Process” on your Dashboard. A pop-up will show all of the essays you have loaded in the software to select from.
How do I start a new essay?
To start a new essay, go to your Dashboard. On your Dashboard, look for the “Add New Essay” prompt. You will be asked to select what type of essay you are writing. Once you select the essay type, you will be brought to the Dashboard for that essay.
Navigating Your Dashboard
The Dashboard (also known as idea matrix) is the heart of your account. From your Dashboard, you can add essays and create brainstorming boards for each essay. Choose from a variety of pre-loaded essay types or create your own. Once you’ve chosen ...
Troubleshooting: Making an Account
If you have issues making an account or if you have issues with your email being flagged as invalid we recommend either using the Sign in with Google feature or using an alternative email address that contains fewer dots and dashes.