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I'm a freshman in college, and I'm suddenly questioning everything I learned in high school about essay structure. For years, I was taught that a proper essay has five paragraphs—introduction, three body paragraphs, conclusion. That was the formula, and it worked. But now my college professors...

This is my biggest grammar weakness. I know the rules—contractions vs possessive pronouns—but in the heat of writing, I still mess up 'your' and 'you're' constantly. And 'its' vs. 'it's' is even worse because the possessive doesn't have an apostrophe, which feels wrong because in English...

My English final is tomorrow and I'm reviewing my notes on author's purpose. I understand that purpose is why the author writes, but the study guide asks specifically what two elements combine to form an author's purpose. I've looked through my textbook and it says something about 'rhetorical...

I went to a Montessori school for elementary, and we learned cursive writing first—before printing. I didn't realize until I was older how unusual that was. My friends in public schools learned print in early grades and then cursive later, usually around third grade. For us, cursive was just...