Writing a college essay is a rite of passage for many students applying to attend a college or university in the United States. Although each institution has its own application requirements, most ...

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Do you know that you can easily improve your writing skills without attending special courses or spending hours on theory and practice? In fact, the art of writing is not so complicated as we used to ...

Extended "discourse," such as class presentations or essays written as school assignments, has a particular structure arising from particular expectations and standards. Such structure, expectations, ...

What is a college application? At its core, a college application is an attempt to convince a stranger (or group of strangers) that the applicant is a desirable classmate, roommate, campus-mate and ...

We’ve all heard about the dreaded “college essay,” the bane of every high school senior’s existence. This daunting element of the college application is ...

You’re here because you want to know how to get ChatGPT to write an essay for you, and I’m here to say you shouldn’t do that outright—but there are ways you can get ChatGPT or other AI services to ...

We fed ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new natural language tool, college essay questions for the 2022-2023 academic year. Here’s what it wrote. The new technology could pose a challenge for college admissions ...

Does the US college essay still have value? In 2019, I attended a conference session on Lego Serious Play, run by leadership educator Tosin Adebisi. I left inspired and energised. The workshop ...

While The Chronicle has printed its share of worthy essays in its “First Person” series, there is nevertheless a certain type of essay -- melancholy, sulky, or otherwise gloomy -- that frequently ...