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 ...

Students facing the college application process typically dread one component: the Common App essay. Students are presented with six essay prompts, as well as a seventh option, which is “topic ...

Suppose you are a professor of pedagogy, and you assign an essay on learning styles ... As of 2017, the number of English majors had nearly halved since the 1990s. History enrollments have ...

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 ...

Susie Rinehart, a Boulder, Colorado-based college essay coach who worked with Rivera, advises her students not to include their race in their personal essay if it’s not related to their chosen ...

"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.

“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 ...

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 ...