Discursive is a nuanced adjective used to describe speech or writing that tends to wander from the main topic, often moving across multiple ideas without a clear or direct structure. It can also refer ...

Read the following passage carefully: 1. Frankness may be among the most overrated of virtues! And here‘s why. Because unrestricted and unfiltered frankness is a recipe for breaking relationships, ...

Perhaps the most profane opening paragraph in the history of Australian journalism can be found in one of Black Inc.’s avowedly highbrow Quarterly Essays. “Those Chinese fuckers are trying to rat-fuck ...

In the lead-up to their English extension 1 exam, Normanhurst Boys High School students Lam Doan, Ronny Jo and Harry Shin taped batteries to their pens to make them heavier during practice, and ...

In the high-stakes world of college admissions, there’s one lesson every hopeful applicant should learn early: sometimes, what you leave out of your essay matters more than what you put in. As Sophie ...

In an analysis comparing college admission essays generated by artificial intelligence to 30,000 human-written essays from before ChatGPT was released, Cornell University researchers found that AI ...

Start early. The best essays take time and can't be developed in one night. CollegeAdvisor recommends beginning the writing process the summer before senior year (if not earlier!). Brainstorm.

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 ...

In less than three years, artificial intelligence technology has radically changed the assessment landscape. In this time, universities have taken various approaches, from outright banning the use of ...

The first of this year’s Leaving Cert exams contained challenging elements, but provided enough choice for students to engage with it meaningfully, teachers have said. “The higher level paper, which ...