Thomas Jefferson was tasked with drafting a wartime document declaring independence. How did it become one of history’s most enduring symbols?

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

Universities are facing a rising tide of digital ghostwriting as stressed international students turn to online models to ...

Terri Ochiagha is a deeply perceptive literary scholar who has an exceptional talent for explicatory prose. Her voice is clear and lucid. Unquestionably, her body of work so far is immensely ...

Two men who were instrumental in the writing and ratification of the U.S. Constitution differed on how the document allocated ...

Ochiagha explains why she is writing the first full-length biography of Chinua Achebe, through years of archival research ...

He had been working on the personal statement for weeks, rewriting the opening paragraph more times than he could count.

Korean won “Writes essays and literary criticism, works at a publishing company. Essays include *The Future of Love*, *A ...

The introduction is one of the most important parts of an argumentative essay because it creates the first impression and introduces the main argument. A strong introduction captures the reader’s ...

Now some authors tell me they’ve embraced AI as a “writing tool,” no different from spell-check or a laptop. The phrase is protean and euphemistic, covering everything from using ChatGPT to find a ...

Ms. Winthrop is the director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and led its global task force on A.I. and education. I am a big fan of technology. I’ve blissfully given ...