Dennis Allen doesn’t think the five-paragraph essay is dead. In the years before his retirement in May from West Virginia University, the Professor Emeritus did not assign “strict” five-paragraph ...

The dreaded blank page. It’s a familiar scene for anyone who’s ever tried to write an essay. The ideas are swirling, but organizing them can feel like untangling a bowl of spaghetti. Two methods often ...

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