Oversharing on TikTok? Fine. Oversharing in your college essay? Not so much. One admissions expert says authenticity has its limits — and we couldn’t agree more.

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In her delightfully written new memoir, 'Joyride,' Susan Orlean mixes personal stories with a bit of writing advice.

As teachers of English and literature and KCSE candidates know, the overall grade in the language is influenced by the scores in English Paper Three.

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, a longtime critic of the platform he helped create, discusses the site's bias issues and ...

As somebody who has been working with AI writing tools for over three years now, I can proudly say that I have been able to see students transformed from underperforming writers into confident ...

What is a college application? At its core, a college application is an attempt to convince a stranger (or group of strangers) that the applicant is a desirable classmate, roommate, campus-mate and ...

Students who plan to use ChatGPT to write their college admissions essays should think twice: Artificial intelligence tools write highly generic personal narratives, even when prompted to write from ...

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 ...

If your AI outputs sound generic — your inputs probably are too. The best AI users aren’t tech wizards — they’re master communicators. And they’ve learned to speak robot. Like people, AI has its own ...