Can you help me find essay communities? I would like to find a place to read other people's essays and share my own for possible feedback. [more inside]
posted on Jul 20, 2008 - 2 answers

I'm seeking writing or creative work related to the idea of "Bread and Circuses." Essays related to this theme, art/media projects creatively interpreting this theme, or your thoughts (as abstract/creative as you like) about this theme.
posted on Jul 2, 2008 - 8 answers

Can anyone direct me toward an essay [preferably vetted] on the use of language in advertising/media? [more inside]
posted on May 30, 2008 - 7 answers

If you were writing a book/essay about the motivations of over-ambitious young people, where would you look for research? [more inside]
posted on Apr 4, 2008 - 7 answers

What are some good sources for examples of well-written essays? [more inside]
posted on Mar 30, 2008 - 21 answers

What tips can you give me when writing my personal statement for a graduate social work program? [more inside]
posted on Mar 16, 2008 - 6 answers

I am interested in the mimetic and narrative capacities of artefacts, how cultural remnants transmit information through time and how meaning is translated once an artefact is re-appropriated or examined from a new perspective. I have several avenues of study at the moment (a list in extended explanation), but would like some more ideas. Areas of critical theory, linguistics, evolutionary psychology and poetics are all relevant. [more inside]
posted on Jan 27, 2008 - 12 answers

I am looking for a magazine that would be interested in a story I've written about being in love without sexual attraction. Nerve is the only magazine that I can think of, but from the looks of things, I doubt they accept anything from writers outside of sunny California. My story isn't sexual explicit, but I don't think a mainstream/family-friendly publication would be interested in this. Does anyone have any suggestions for a Nerve-esque magazine (or zine) that accepts non-fiction that isn't supposed to make you horny?
posted on Jan 10, 2008 - 13 answers

My 8th grader wants to attend a very progressive local private high school next year. Are there some general guidelines for how long, or how deep, these non-college application essays should be? [more inside]
posted on Dec 25, 2007 - 10 answers

In high school (the late 1990s) I read an essay on marriage -- the writer's main contention was that it's unrealistic to think that a single person can ever be at the exact same life stages as yourself, e.g. Young & Passionate (teens), Ready to Have Children (30's), Wanting Intellectual Companionship (60's), and thusly, that having just one partner over the course of a lifetime is a near impossibility. [more inside]
posted on Dec 18, 2007 - 3 answers

An hegemon or a hegemon? [more inside]
posted on Oct 18, 2007 - 14 answers

DesperationFilter: I need the name of an essay by Margaret Atwood. [more inside]
posted on Sep 12, 2007 - 5 answers

College essay filter: help me find this (probably satirical) college entrance essay. [more inside]
posted on Jul 27, 2007 - 7 answers

I'm currently applying to medical school. Will my essay choice blackball me from consideration? [more inside]
posted on Jul 21, 2007 - 17 answers

Fair Use Filter -- I want to take clips from movies and embed them in an online essay as quotation-style references. [more inside]
posted on Jul 2, 2007 - 6 answers

Favorite exercises/ materials for Freshman Composition classes? Help me engage young minds in order to brainwash educate them! [more inside]
posted on May 20, 2007 - 5 answers

Can anyone recommend some good research/study/outlining software that assists your writing? Either freeware or paid. Basically I mean software that alows you to collate ideas and notes as you read, as well as lets you do outlining - all this in preparation for writing a report or paper or essay. [more inside]
posted on Apr 25, 2007 - 11 answers

I'm writing an essay on interns and internships and I need suggestions for books, films, songs (?), quotations, etc., about or that reference, surprise, interns and internships in some way. [more inside]
posted on Feb 27, 2007 - 17 answers

I am looking for well regarded books/scholarly papers about writing. Most specifically in the areas of Nonfiction (the essay style of article writing) and Children's Fiction (for a young adult audience). Any tips? Go as far and broad as you can. I'll be off to the British library tomorrow, so the sky is the limit. [more inside]
posted on Jan 9, 2007 - 6 answers

Who are the most insightful essayists of our time--not necessarily brilliant academics, but razor-sharp, profound, generalist thinkers and writers on society? Who are our present-day Toquevilles and Twains, our Bacons and Emersons?
posted on Nov 16, 2006 - 46 answers

Long shot, but I heard a story/essay on WBEZ Chicago four years ago that I've not been able to track down since. It was a quite eerie hypothetical about a gathering of "everybody you've ever known." [more inside]
posted on Nov 4, 2006 - 8 answers

What are the most subtle ways to decrease the apparent length of my Word document? [more inside]
posted on Oct 3, 2006 - 40 answers

As a tutor, how do I come up with a critical writing essay prompt that is accessible to students from third to eighth grade? [more inside]
posted on Sep 18, 2006 - 5 answers

It's a myth that the primary purpose of higher education institutions is to teach. I read this in an essay online around the beginning of 2005 and would like to find it again. [more inside]
posted on Sep 4, 2006 - 11 answers

Is their a free service that will edit my essay? [more inside]
posted on Aug 8, 2006 - 19 answers

What should I write about for my linguistics class? [more inside]
posted on May 2, 2006 - 15 answers

Help us find this Schopenhauer essay online... [more inside]
posted on May 1, 2006 - 3 answers

What are the most frank, telling criticisms of issues like RIAA/DRM/Music Industry that you've read before? [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2006 - 13 answers

I've been asked to provide a writing sample as part of an application to a PhD program. What should I provide? [more inside]
posted on Nov 17, 2005 - 8 answers

I'm trying to write an essay on the current nostalgia for guilt-free (and information-free!) smoking, boozing and drug-taking and desperately need sources, whether web-based or bibliographical. [More inside.]
posted on May 5, 2004 - 16 answers

This month, I'm applying to Pharmacy school at UGA. The one "essay" goes: "In the space provided below, please provide a personal statement as to what skills, talents, or abilities you posses that will be helpful to you in our program."
Not looking for anyone to write my mini-essay, but anyone in the field of Pharmacy or admissions got any suggestions as to anything I could put on there to seperate my application from everyone else, or just pointers as to what kind of key words/phrases admissions poeple might be looking for?
posted on Jan 14, 2004 - 2 answers