These strategies can guide your high school senior through brainstorming, drafting and polishing a strong personal statement.

Retired investigator Lisa Miller says comma splices and open compounds in the Nancy Guthrie ransom notes reveal the author's unique idiolect.

I first read The Odyssey during the summer holidays when I was 15 years old. Parked under the shade of the mulberry tree in our Brisbane backyard, I would read, grab a few mulberries, then read some ...

Into the World Cup round of 32 we dive, sort of! There's just the one game on the fixture list Sunday, and frankly, there's not a lot to be said about Canada vs. South Africa. If the hosts, whose ...

REPETITION is done for emphasis. Makes the reader feel the main idea is important. Today we repeat the familiar answer to the question, what is a short story? One assertion given by an expert is that ...

A long time ago, an avant- garde filmmaker set out to make his third, and what he thought could be his last, commercial movie. His first attempt, a dystopian fantasy, had flopped. His second, a ...

I couldn’t give take-home assignments anymore. Handwritten tests in class wouldn’t work either. Somehow, I needed to fill ChatGPT’s shoes. Tom Kaspers is an assistant professor in philosophy at the ...

Artificial intelligence isn’t just replacing jobs — it’s creating new ones, and some come with six-figure salaries. Anthropic PBC, the company behind the Claude family of AI tools, is offering up to ...

Few drivers are as equipped to run at the front of the pack as Kyle Larson. But Larson has had a few key missteps that have put him behind the 8-ball early in the season in the new championship format ...

This isn’t a traditional year-end podcast list. For the second time running, we’ve eschewed a conventional “best of” format in favor of an approach that better reflects how podcasting now operates ...