As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of generating polished, grammatically correct text that meets academic standards, educators face a critical challenge: How can we teach students ...

An academic essay's style does not provide a few abbreviations to be used in the text. We are talking about connecting two words into one by reducing or skipping a syllable. Such techniques in writing ...

Balancing lectures, part-time jobs, and a social life can feel like juggling flaming torches. No wonder productivity tools have become a lifeline for today’s students. Between endless assignments and ...

Extended "discourse," such as class presentations or essays written as school assignments, has a particular structure arising from particular expectations and standards. Such structure, expectations, ...

In the most abstract sense, the function of an introductory paragraph is to move the reader from the world of daily life into the textual and analytical space of an essay. In a more concrete sense, an ...

Because of this, many students ask an important question: are essay writing services actually worth using? From a student’s point of view, the main reason is lack of time. Some subjects are hard to ...

A few years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I presented a paper at my department’s American Literature Colloquium. (A colloquium is a sort of writing workshop for graduate students.) ...

Your main insight or idea about a text or topic, and the main proposition that your essay demonstrates. It should be true but arguable (not obviously or patently true, but one alternative among ...

Peter Ellerton is affiliated with the Centre for Critical and Creative Thinking. He is a Fellow of the Rationalist Society of Australia. The use of the word “I” in academic writing, that is writing in ...