The following are actual responses to some of our recent submissions to the Online Writing Lab, although the names have been changed to maintain the anonymity of student writers. You can expect ...

The section is still unscored, although the sample you write will be provided to admissions offices as part of your file. You will still have a wide window of dates to complete the writing sample ...

Creative writers say they find fulfillment in the writing process. "I believe that making art is a human need, and so to get to do that is amazing," says Andrea Lawlor, an author who this year ...

Texts close Text Any piece of writing - including text messages, emails, letters, newspaper articles, novels etc. that deal with facts, opinions and the real world are usually described as non ...

Mr. McAllister is a novelist and the author of the memoir “Bury Me in My Jersey.” I was grading assignments for an undergraduate course in memoir writing when I experienced a severe crisis of ...

Fiction is writing that draws on your imagination. It might have some emotional truth, or might be inspired by reality, but the writing takes the reader somewhere else. Fiction tends to use ...

Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology applicants should upload a writing sample no longer than 20 pages such as a term paper or an excerpt from a BA or MA thesis. Writing samples are optional, but ...