Students dread the application essay. Critics think it's an exercise in fakery. Here’s why it’s worth preserving — and how to ...

I like to break my books up into the smallest possible units. “Writing Tools” set the standard: 50 chapters at about 1,000 words per chapter. (Total: 50,000-plus words.) Let’s do the math again: 200 ...

“I am who I am.” Her mother, who came to Japan for work before Sophia was born, is accustomed to life here and speaks Japanese smoothly. When Sophia was writing the essay, she asked her mother ...

When students use AI to help write their essays, he said, they are wasting a valuable opportunity. “The essay is one of the few opportunities in the admissions process for a student to ...

the hand I am writing this with. She held it for a long time.” In her follow-up essay, Vara points to these sentences as an example of A.I. achieving emotional truth: “Artificial intelligence ...

I need to disclose to you that yes, I am hyperbolic and that I know that hyperbole ... I would decline and make my excuses: It’s not good to write about your friends, for one thing.

How to Discuss Diversity in Medical School Essays? Writing personal statements and other essays for medical school can be daunting, as applicants have a limited number of words to discuss their ...

When writing a poem, it’s important to ask yourself: who am I talking to? Am I writing as if I’m speaking to an audience in some hushed, sacred space, or as if I’m talking to a friend over a ...

“These [essays], carried out as both criticism and autobiography, are my attempt to think through what it means to write and read from the position of an other, which is for me the starting ...

For reading and writing, the short paragraph and the quick reply replace the book, the essay, the letter ... with others who share my concerns I am perpetually talking, talking, talking ...