If anything, essays grew duller. Guidebooks, English teachers, and private college consultants have increasingly taught students to follow a formula that goes something like this: Start with an ...

"We're witnessing the death of the college essay in realtime," said one user ... and doom," said Professor Stuart Selber, who teaches English at Pennsylvania State University.

You need only a few minutes to reflect on personal qualities you would never consider mentioning in a college essay, but should. Your application and your recommendations will cover all the ...

“The secret to writing a great college admissions essay” by Liza Libes (Ideas, April 27) should be required reading for every high school senior aspiring to college. As an English teacher for ...

“Part of the process of the college essay is finding your writing voice through all of that drafting and revising,” said Susan Barber, an Advanced Placement English literature teacher at ...

No way the college essay would go extinct, I thought, but what would I do if it did? I couldn’t go back to teaching high school English in HISD, a job I loved, since another headline in the same ...

PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College will celebrate student writing at 12:30 p.m. Thursday as Stadium Generale spotlights the winners of the English Essay Awards. Through gifts from Juliette Teorey and ...