Political rhetoric is not inherently bad, and I am not suggesting a War on Rhetoric. But there are aspects of our present political and cultural reality that underline the need for a prominent, ...

Although the essay portion of the SAT became optional in 2016, many students still chose to write it to demonstrate strong or improved writing skills to prospective colleges. In June 2021, the College ...

"By Mr. Trump’s logic, after the huge financial crisis of 2007-08, the best way to protect the American economy would have been to ban white males." By Jennifer Konerman Aziz Ansari called for an end ...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wrote an essay in The Atlantic on Tuesday about a foiled plot to kidnap her but spent nearly every word making a case against reelecting President Trump. "We cannot ...

So you've been assigned to write an essay. You know you'll be spending the next few weeks of your life with this sort of hanging over your head; you'll do a lot of writing and asking yourself "What on ...

ESSAYS: Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracyby Arundhati Roy Hamis Hamilton, 256pp, £14.99: Booker-winning author Arundhati Roy's activism continues to find expression in non-fiction ...

When you send in your job-application materials, you’re not just assembling separate documents to fulfill the requirements of an ad. Those documents are part of a larger rhetorical whole, and together ...

Video essays have made criticism more accessible and creative, even as the attention economy pushes them toward formula and excess.