The personal essay is an essential component of your application. How compelling it is — or isn't — can make or break your acceptance.

Many students might see an English course titled Hermit Crabs and Borrowed Forms and immediately wonder what crustaceans have ...

The International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA) has awarded $2,500 to Nevdon Jamgochian for his work-in-progress, ...

I’ve been told numerous times to ‘forget everything I learned in high school’ when it comes to college essay-writing. Great, ...

Let’s rewind the clocks 21 months. I was in the Roaring Fork Valley between the third and fourth semesters of my graduate ...

The BBC has spoken to a former lecturer who describes essay cheating as an "open secret" and to a businessman who claims to ...

The Office of Graduate Admissions (OGA) processes all U.S. and International applications for admission into the Graduate School at the University of Texas at Austin. The application process for ...

Assistant Teaching Professor of Global Arts, Media and Writing Studies, University of California, Merced Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text ...

I also have, shall we say, a fragmented attention span, and my therapist likes to routinely bring up how many women my age have undiagnosed ADHD, which I now take as a not-so-subtle hint. So I need ...

Essay writing is one of the most scoring yet challenging components of the UPSC Civil Services Mains Examination. It tests not only your knowledge but also your ability to analyze, organize, and ...

The first essay anybody writes is for school. Same here. But the only examples I remember are the ones I wrote at the end, in my A-level exams. One compared Hitler to Stalin. Another, Martin Luther ...

Rob Halpin, a 3rd year PhD student in Geography, talks about his experience of essays. What do essays look like in your discipline? An essay is a short piece of writing on a particular subject. Essays ...