Many college applications require a personal essay, which can be daunting for ... from Harry Potter to books used to learn English. They describe the bottom of the bookshelf housing some of ...

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 ...

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 ...

DEIRDRE CYNTHIA MUTCHNICK IS THE AUTHOR OF WRITING SUCCESSFUL COLLEGE APPLICATION ... over your essay or personal statement before submitting anything. Consider asking your English teacher.

Rather than banning these tools or ignoring them, we need a shared framework that helps students use AI ethically and ...

"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.

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 ...

“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 ...