Writing a college essay is a rite of passage for many students applying to attend a college or university in the United States. Although each institution has its own application requirements, most ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brennan Barnard writes about the nuances of college admission. If you are looking for the “secret formula” for writing a “winning” ...

The best essay boils down to the strongest argument. So, if you find yourself struggling to come up with one, drop the five-paragraph essay format like a hot potato, lean into the philosophy of the ...

What happened? To answer that, it helps to consider what gave rise to the personal essay’s ubiquity in the first place. Around 2008, several factors converged. In preceding years, private blogs and ...

Dan Sanford, executive director of Boise State University’s Center for Teaching and Learning, recently published an essay in Inside Higher Ed examining the growing use of artificial intelligence–based ...

The word essay comes from the French word ‘essayer’ meaning ‘to try’ or ‘to attempt’. A French writer called Michel de Montaigne invented the essay in Europe as his ‘attempt’ to write about himself ...