With the imminent deadline for college applications, students are scrambling to complete the dreaded personal essay. As an instructor of college-level writing, the years I’ve spent teaching students ...

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For many college papers, a prompt will ask questions related to readings and class discussion, asking you to demonstrate analysis and discussion of the topic. Decoding what a prompt is asking can ...

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Dan Melzer, associate director of first-year composition at the University of California, Davis, shook up the research on teaching college-level writing in 2014 with his book Assignments Across the ...

Are you a procrastinator who suffers from writing anxiety? Try one of the following writing prompts. Writing prompts are a way to brainstorm your project and have a record of your thoughts. Using ...

W hen I was a kid, my favorite poem was Shel Silverstein’s “The Homework Machine,” which summed up my childhood fantasy: a machine that could do my homework at the press of a button. Decades later ...

Writing centers on college campuses have been around for more than 100 years, and they’re both a resource for students doing assignments and a symbol of the importance in higher education of learning ...

Rachel Quaye-Asamoah is heading into her senior year at Brooklyn Technical High School in New York. She is eyeing several top-ranked colleges, and intends to major in economics. She is already ...