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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 formatting matters more than most people …

I’ve been staring at essays for years now, both as someone writing them and someone reading them. The thing about quotes is that they’re deceptively simple. …

I’ve spent the last decade reading essays. Not for pleasure, though sometimes they surprise me with their brilliance. I’ve read them as a writing instructor, as …

I’ve been staring at a 1,200-word essay requirement for what feels like forever, and I’m sitting at 800 words. The panic is real. I know I …

I’ve been staring at blank pages for years now. Not because I’m lazy or incapable, but because I understand something that most people don’t want to …

I spent three years as a writing tutor before I realized I’d been teaching run-on sentences all wrong. Not the identifying part–that was fine. But the …

If you are going to apply to a University of California, there is a challenging task ahead, so you should prepare yourself for it. Every UC …

Whether you learn English, or it is your native language, it is important to know its structure well to succeed in academic writing. Proper grammar, punctuation, …