On a gray November morning, stacks of essays sat on an admissions counselor’s desk at a New England liberal arts college. She had already read 60 that week. “I could tell within the first five lines ...

Platforms such as PagePeek apply large language models trained for academic evaluation to review essays through the lens of institutional assessment criteria. Instead of returning a score in isolation ...

You know the feeling. You open a blank document, reread the assignment for the fifth time, and somehow an hour disappears ...

The major claim of the essay is complex, insightful, and unexpected. The thesis responds to a true question, tension or problem. It is stated clearly at the outset and evolves throughout the paper.

Much of the writing in advanced undergraduate seminars in Psychology is of the form of research review papers or research reviews that lead to a proposed study to advance the field (or domain under ...