Matt Whittle has experience writing and editing accessible education-related content in health, technology, nursing and business subjects. His work has been featured on Sleep.org, Psychology.org and ...

Perhaps video essays are like pornography in that, as the saying goes, you know it when you see it. But what distinguishes a video essay from a short film and what are the ground rules for this ...

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 ...

About a month ago, on a trip to Dallas, Texas, I had dinner with a young d.j. whose renown as a producer and engineer is steadily growing. We talked about life and music and art and money, and how ...

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 ...

Polygon’s latest series, The Masterpieces of Streaming, looks at the new batch of classics that have emerged from an evolving era of entertainment. Like every medium before it, “video essays” on ...

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

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 ...

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Edwina Preston received funding from the Australia Council for the Arts for her most recent novel Bad Art Mother. When my daughter was in the early years of primary school, her class was asked what ...