Writing a college admissions essay is a little bit like going through a job interview. The prompts sound roughly like this: Tell us about a situation or task you encountered, what you did and what the ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. The writer Cody Delistraty’s mother died when he was in his early 20s, and the loss ...

In the writing workshops I teach, I advocate that writing can save your life. Using my own life as a compass, I suggest that when navigating difficult waters, we all need something to turn to—whatever ...

Perhaps you’re less interested in breaking news and more interested in breaking boundaries and writing creatively. Fortunately, UChicago has several publications that feature students’ creative essays ...

In these days of fewer people doing more work, there is a heavier reliance on each person doing his own writing. Whether you enjoy writing or try to avoid it, you probably wish you could do it better.

I’ve asked my son’s teachers to let him use his laptop to take notes instead of writing them down by hand. He does way better on his computer and gets distracted too much with writing notes by hand.

Thirteen years ago, at the height of the June Virginia heat, we stood in front of our family and friends and repeated these traditional vows to each other, “To have and to hold from this day forward, ...