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An Oklahoma university has removed a graduate teaching assistant from classroom duties following a high-profile dispute over how an undergraduate essay on gende ...

The winners were chosen from High School Seniors of public and private schools in Lavaca, De-Witt, and Gonzales counties.

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.

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

Literacy, literacy, literacy was the hottest topic on The 74’s opinion pages this year. Whether it was Chad Aldeman and ...

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

Conservative activists and politicians have rallied around a college student who received a zero on an essay. Some grad ...

For all Zadie Smith’s talents and successes as a novelist, some in the literary world think her real strength is non-fiction. And she is, indeed, one of the essay form’s modern masters. Her new ...

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 ...

There is a pleasure in philosophy which every aspirant feels, until it appears as an unavoidable component of the UPSC CSE Essay paper. Is it so? In the past few years, the Essay paper of UPSC CSE has ...

At Bucknell, we can assure you that a real human being (at least two, actually) will review your entire application, including your essay, and that they (not computers) will decide if you get in.