Plenty of students feel like essays are a thing of the past. Writing five pages on a single topic in an age dominated by short-form writing in social media seems excessive. However, professors ...

This is the question Martin Luther King, Jr. posed in an essay entitled “The Purpose of Education,” published in the Morehouse student newspaper around the time of his 18th birthday.

That’s why the significance of a college essay in education goes way beyond school. It’s about learning to express ideas, challenge existing theories, and communicate in a way that actually ...