I’ve read thousands of essays. Not an exaggeration. Between my years as a teaching assistant, my work with the American Psychological Association’s writing standards committee, and …
I’ve read thousands of essays. Not an exaggeration. Between my years as a teaching assistant, my work with the American Psychological Association’s writing standards committee, and …
I’ve read thousands of essay introductions. Not exaggerating. When you spend enough time teaching writing, grading papers, and consulting with students who are genuinely confused about …
I’ve been staring at my own writing for so long that the words stopped making sense around paragraph three. You know that feeling? When you’ve read …
I’ve spent the better part of a decade watching students panic over citations. Not the kind of panic you’d expect from a difficult concept, but the …
I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit staring at a song title in the middle of a paragraph, wondering if I got the formatting …
I’ve read thousands of essays. Not an exaggeration. When you work in college admissions for long enough, you develop a sixth sense for what works and …
I’ve stared at that number more times than I care to admit. Twelve hundred words. It sits there on the assignment sheet, and immediately my brain …
I’ve spent the better part of a decade staring at conclusions that fall flat. Some of them are mine. Most of them belong to students I’ve …
I’ve been staring at this assignment for twenty minutes, and I still haven’t written a single sentence. The cursor blinks at me mockingly. My coffee is …
I’ve read thousands of research papers. Some of them changed how I think about entire fields. Others made me want to throw my laptop across the …