Teachers, friends and parents can all be helpful proofreaders, but experts note that the student voice should remain intact. A good editor can help edit a long essay to keep the main message but ...

The word essay comes from the French word ‘essayer’ meaning ‘to try’ or ‘to attempt’. A French writer called Michel de Montaigne invented the essay in Europe as his ‘attempt’ to ...

Readers respond to a guest essay that argued that high grades should be strictly for excellence. To the Editor: Re “Sorry, You Don’t Get an A for Effort,” by ...