John Warner is the author of Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities and The Writer's Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing. John Warner is the ...

Will Geiger estimates that he read about 10,000 college application essays over the course of a years-long career in college ...

This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. In the most abstract sense, the function of an introductory paragraph is to move the reader from the world of daily life into the ...

In a court of law, a good lawyer would never stand up, point at a photograph or an evidence document, say Here’s my evidence, so that proves my point then sit back down, case closed. Here is an ...

• Brittany Stinson got into University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Cornell and Stanford. • Her admissions essay hightlighted her personality through a story about going to ...