Traditionally, essay writing was seen as an academic exercise, but not anymore. An essay is a piece of writing that is written to convince someone of something or to inform the reader about a ...

The Writing Center Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2019), pp. 93-126 (34 pages) Heeding previous scholars' calls for a critical investigation of the role of reflection in the professional development of ...

When I was in my twenties I put writers on a pedestal, believing that writing is an exertion of power. I still largely feel this way because in our present time, where attention is fleeting, to be ...

memoir, fiction, autobiography, biography — aren’t as clear as they once were. But some things never change. As recently as 2017, a friend of a writer she knows asked him how many times Bair had slept ...

The Lucille Geier Lakes Writer-in-Residence Program was created to bring distinguished writers—including poets, playwrights, novelists and journalists—to Smith for a semester each year. Established in ...

WASHINGTON — Twenty-five years ago this week, I wrote my first column. I’m not much given to self-reflection — why do you think I quit psychiatry? — but I figure once every quarter-century is not ...

Worth a read: ‘Reflections’ by Raqui Ramsey, whose late Army officer husband, Ed, received the Distinguished Service Cross. To subscribe, click here. To submit a letter to the editor, click here.

On Nov. 8, 1998, my first gardening column appeared in my hometown paper, The Valley News of West Lebanon, N.H. Since then, I have written over 1,200 weekly columns and answered countless questions ...