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

The essay appears to have been written for an Introduction to Nuclear Energy class (PH241) that Christian McCaffrey took in ...

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

Jia Tolentino, guest editor of “The Best American Essays 2025,” reflects on essays, community and life in Brooklyn.

A University of Oklahoma student received a zero on a psychology essay after using her religious beliefs to discuss gender norms. The graduate student instructor said the grade was for not properly ...

The essay, written for a psychology class by a University of Oklahoma student, called the idea of multiple genders “demonic.” The instructor said it did not answer the assignment. By Mark Arsenault A ...

The Cliff at Briarcliff High School boasts a math lab, where students can get help with math homework throughout the day. It also has a writing lab, where students can […] ...

Spoken or unspoken, all the essays on America’s semiquincentennial that follow in this special symposium conjure with the defining question of our political dispensation. The question was articulated ...

Write the name of a place (house, spot in nature, work, restaurant, etc.) at the top of your paper, and then do a stream-of-consciousness writing about that place and see what bubbles up. Pick a ...