On a gray November morning, stacks of essays sat on an admissions counselor’s desk at a New England liberal arts college. She had already read 60 that week. “I could tell within the first five lines ...

Thesis & Motive (20%). The motivation for addressing the chosen problem, the explication of the main argument or claim, as seen mainly in the introduction and conclusion Evidence & Analysis (50%). The ...

Much of the writing in advanced undergraduate seminars in Psychology is of the form of research review papers or research reviews that lead to a proposed study to advance the field (or domain under ...

Dennis Allen doesn’t think the five-paragraph essay is dead. In the years before his retirement in May from West Virginia University, the Professor Emeritus did not assign “strict” five-paragraph ...