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Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Can there be a political writer who has not fallen in love with George Orwell’s 1946 essay, “Politics and ...

For international students whose primary language is not English, writing a college essay can be challenging. But English competence is not everything when it comes to writing well. Even native ...

Grammatical habits in written English reveal linguistic features of non-native speakers' languages, researchers report. The work could enable computers chewing through relatively accessible documents ...

Despite the rank hypocrisy of Orwell’s use of the passive voice, this is one of the most sublimely constructed essays ever published in the English language. I wish The New Republic could claim full ...

Mr. Pinsky, the U.S. poet laureate from 1997 to 2000, is a professor at Boston University. A writer I admire expresses in a few words his disdain for plausible but empty political language, beginning ...

Essays are not only written by students. People who are considered experts in a particular topic often write essays to show a new viewpoint on something. For example, authors like Charles Dickens and ...