Essay collections appear infrequently on the lists of most popular nonfiction — memoirs and historical narratives dominate conversations about the genre. Those forms of nonfiction are wonderful in ...

“Imagine a type of writing so hard to define its very name should be something like: an effort, an attempt, a trial,” Dillon (The Great Explosion) aptly observes at the outset of this self-reflexive ...

Writing an essay is a fundamental skill that students must develop. Essays are not just academic exercises; they are a means of communication that can shape one's ability to convey ideas effectively.

As the college essay program manager for Write the World, a nonprofit writing organization for teens, I oversee a group of advisers who guide students through the essay writing process. I have seen ...

Extended "discourse," such as class presentations or essays written as school assignments, has a particular structure arising from particular expectations and standards. Such structure, expectations, ...

As more and more journals (Visual Studies/Visual Communication/Visual Anthropology) and other venues open up to the possibilities of publishing in creative and image based ways, the question of what ...