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

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The paper by Samantha Fulnecky, published earlier by The Oklahoman and also posted online, received a zero by the instructor ...

A teaching assistant who gave a student a 0 on an essay citing the Bible will no longer be teaching at the University of Oklahoma.

Social media users were sympathetic toward the professor, with one calling the situation, "a genuinely sad state of affairs." ...

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 ...

Fulnecky appealed her grade on the assignment, which was worth 3% of the final grade in the class, and the university said the assignment would not count. It also placed Curth on leave, and Oklahoma’s ...

Research compared students who typed lecture notes on laptops with those who wrote lecture notes by hand during the same time.

We published 227 pieces of original writing in 2025, by nearly as many contributors. Our “Best of 2025” post is a chance to revisit a favorite essay, or discover a piece you missed the first time ...

From literacy, New Orleans after Katrina and special ed for all to freedom of speech and teachers who gave up, what our op-ed ...

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?