(MoneyWatch) For students who are applying for college, one of the scariest parts of the admission process is writing the dreaded essay. A common mistake that students make when tackling their college ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A brilliant college essay topic doesn’t just showcase intelligence — it reveals personality, curiosity, humor, resilience, or the ...

In this lesson, Scott describes the ingredients of a good paragraph. Hello, I'm Scott. Today we're looking at paragraphs and how to use them in an essay. It's important to understand the structure of ...

Adapted from Without You, There Is No Us: My Time With the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim. Out now from Crown Publishers. Essay was a much-dreaded word among my students. It was the fall of ...