The Freedom From Religion Foundation is proud to award $15,450 to the top 10 winners of the 2026 Cornelius Vander Broek Graduate/Older Student Essay Competition.Students were asked to write on ...

An essay cannot establish whether that person understands the harm they have caused or whether their behavior will change, ...

Synthetic survey respondents tend to exaggerate differences between demographic subgroups and portray some responses as nearly universal.

Teach discursive writing and balanced argument skills through a thought-provoking environmental debate. This resource teaches students how to discuss real-world issues fairly, consider different ...

Securing a Level 5 or Level 6 on the CAIE 9093 Paper 2 mark scheme requires more than just listing pros and cons. Students must demonstrate absolute register control, objective distance, and ...

WELCOME to our composition presentations. We have exhausted narrative and descriptive essays. Now we turn to discursive essays. This is the talk about both sides. One examiner calls this argumentative ...

Several selective universities have announced they will remove supplemental essays from their application materials for the 2026–27 admissions cycle, causing a stir in the admissions world. Some of ...

Paying for college doesn’t have to mean living on ramen noodles forever or taking out loans that feel like they’ll follow you into retirement. One of the smartest ways to help cover the cost is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brennan Barnard writes about the nuances of college admission. The college essay or “personal statement” gets a lot of airtime in ...

Discursive institutionalism explores how ideas and the processes of discourse shape policy outcomes within institutional contexts. It advances beyond structural and historical dimensions of ...