Where can I publish some old literary crit essays that are burning a hole in my pocket? [more inside]
posted by duncecap on Nov 1, 2009 - 6 answers

Is there a distance at which a satellite will orbit a body indefinitely? Is this distance a universal constant? [more inside]
posted by doublehappy on Oct 16, 2009 - 28 answers

How would you approach this college admissions essay prompt? "Discuss anything you wish you understood better than you do now. " [more inside]
posted by caroljean63 on Jun 9, 2009 - 19 answers

I have to write an admission essay for college, and the guidelines are... vague. [more inside]
posted by Kellydamnit on May 29, 2009 - 12 answers

I'm reapplying to college six years after dropping out. I left, in part, because I had developed a drug problem. My application needs to include an essay which explains why I want to return, why my grades were below a 2.0 at the time I left, and why I will not repeat the same mistakes. Just how honest should I be? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Apr 30, 2009 - 21 answers

TAs, profs, teachers, markers: give me your best stock phrases for essay comments. [more inside]
posted by pised on Mar 30, 2009 - 22 answers

College application essay about the challenges overcome in relation to one's sexuality: good or bad idea? [more inside]
posted by Gotham on Mar 29, 2009 - 13 answers

Recommendations for books that teach argument composition? [more inside]
posted by Sova on Feb 6, 2009 - 10 answers

Help me find an article/essay/blog entry I read 2 or 3 years ago about how obvious flirting is and always will be. [more inside]
posted by ictow on Jan 25, 2009 - 2 answers

Seeking a wonderful essay I saw online once about being age-appropriate -- hoping the green can help me? [more inside]
posted by EmpressCallipygos on Dec 16, 2008 - 6 answers

I am writing a paper on photographic representations of the city or urban spaces, in particular photography that attempts to 'capture' the ubiquitous "non-places" as described by Marc Augé. But I am having trouble finding photographers that seem to fit! Can you help? [more inside]
posted by valmonster on Dec 4, 2008 - 13 answers

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 by Knigel 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 by kalapierson 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 by 913 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 by divabat on Apr 4, 2008 - 7 answers

What are some good sources for examples of well-written essays? [more inside]
posted by saoyama 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 by anonymous 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 by 0bvious 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 by haasim 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 by ick 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 by acorn1515 on Dec 18, 2007 - 3 answers

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

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

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

I'm currently applying to medical school. Will my essay choice blackball me from consideration? [more inside]
posted by wuzandfuzz 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 by Quarter Pincher 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 by exlotuseater 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 by vizsla 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 by Cochise 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 by 0bvious 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 by shivohum 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 by granted on Nov 4, 2006 - 8 answers

What are the most subtle ways to decrease the apparent length of my Word document? [more inside]
posted by VillageLion 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 by mikelly 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 by Pigpen on Sep 4, 2006 - 11 answers

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

What should I write about for my linguistics class? [more inside]
posted by fvox13 on May 2, 2006 - 15 answers

Help us find this Schopenhauer essay online... [more inside]
posted by simonemarie 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 by Lockeownzj00 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 by MrC 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.] [more inside]
posted by MiguelCardoso on May 5, 2004 - 15 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 by jmd82 on Jan 14, 2004 - 2 answers