... CHAPTER 3 HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS 31INCLUSIVE LANGUAGEBiased language, which includes negative stereotypes, has no place in your writing. Your goalis to include rather than to exclude. ... inappropriate and in poor taste to use slang terms for racial or religiousgroups.32Word Choice CHAPTER 3 HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS 33SPELLINGCollege admissions essays and essays that are not timed ... single consonant (words with only one syllable are alwaysaccented).Stop becomes stopping, stopped, stoppage, or stopper because stophas only one syllable (so it is accented), and it ends in a single...