Human essays use over three times more engagement techniques than ChatGPT, including personal asides, rhetorical questions, ...

We all know what racism looks like. It’s loud, it’s angry, it’s terrifying. But when it’s hidden in imagery and connotations, it’s much more sinister.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Credit...Photo illustration by Tyler Comrie. (Georges Seurat, “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884,” via the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection/The Art ...