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My college application essay was three handwritten paragraphs long, written in an upward-trending script right on the paper form. It reminds me now how innocent I was about the whole process and how ...

The genre is often maligned for being formulaic and melodramatic, but it’s more important than you think. By Nell Freudenberger Most high school seniors approach the college essay with dread. Either ...

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A University of Oklahoma graduate instructor awarded zero points to a student on her reaction essay to an article about gender stereotypes. This student, who had referenced the Bible in her essay ...

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 ...

A University of Oklahoma student is in the national spotlight for claiming religious discrimination after she failed a ...

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