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I’ve spent the better part of a decade reading student essays, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that dialogue punctuation is where otherwise competent …

I’ve spent the last five years watching students make decisions that haunt them. Not immediately, but later. The kind of haunting that creeps up during job …

I’ve read somewhere around three thousand college essays. Not an exaggeration. When you spend five years teaching composition and another three working with admissions consultants, you …

I’ve been staring at blank pages for years now. Not just as a writer, but as someone who’s had to figure out what reflection actually means …

I’ve been writing essays for longer than I care to admit, and somewhere along the way, I realized that most people approach problem-solution essays backward. They …

I’ve read thousands of essays. Not an exaggeration. When you spend years teaching composition, grading papers, and helping students prepare for standardized tests, you develop a …