The federal government has flagged “cues” such as personal essays, along with narratives about “overcoming obstacles” and ...

A new course in the College is allowing first-years to put that idea into practice as part of “Inquiry, Conversation, ...

Jia Tolentino, guest editor of “The Best American Essays 2025,” reflects on essays, community and life in Brooklyn.

A University of Warwick-led analysis of almost 5,000 student-authored reports suggests that student writing has become more ...

Finals season always seems to arrive with a stack of essays that grows faster than my ability to write them.  Even as a ...

Kenya Primary School Education Assesement candidates celebrate after exams at Nyamachaki Primary Schoo in Nyeri. On 1 November,2023. [FILE/Standard] Essay writing is one of the defining activities in ...

GARDEN CITY, Long Island (WABC) -- A college student on Long Island says he was wrongly accused of using artificial intelligence to write an essay, and now he's suing his university. Adelphi ...

The first essay anybody writes is for school. Same here. But the only examples I remember are the ones I wrote at the end, in my A-level exams. One compared Hitler to Stalin. Another, Martin Luther ...

Writing a college admissions essay is hard. But using AI could backfire badly. Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Tero Vesalainen / iStock / Getty Every fall, high school students applying to ...

This video is no longer available. A well-written essay and $200 could win you a nearly 6,000-square-foot house in historic downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia. Paula and Robert Welsh said they love ...

I used to believe I taught the one genre that artificial intelligence couldn’t touch. For 15 years, I’ve guided college students through the deeply human work of personal narrative, helping them ...

Students typically fill out the “Common App,” which is accepted by more than 1,000 colleges and universities. Most of the questions are straightforward, with the exception of the Activities section ...