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In one 1990s experiment, a team including psychologist Joel Cooper of Princeton asked participants to write essays opposing funding for the disabled.

"I prefer take home essays because it is then really about the writing, so you have time to edit and do more research," says Elizabeth Dresser, a junior at Barnard.

I am sure I wrote essays in the later years of high school without my mother's guidance, but I can't recall them.

Research now shows that regular quizzes, short essays, and other assignments over the course of a term better enhance learning and retention.

G) Those schools usually require essays of their own, but the longest essay, 500 words maximum, is generally attached to the Common Application.

Smith's essays raise as many questions as they answer.

A teacher might read 10000 essays over a 40-year career.

In 2012, Kaggle challenged its community to build a program that could grade high school essays.

In those essays, and in follow-up interviews with a few of the teenagers, we found lots of insight, positive feeling and inspirational thinking.

Recently, we examined more than 400 essays on the "laws of life" that teens from two communities had written as part of an educational program initiated by the John Templeton Foundation in Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Years ago, I was asked to write 102 essays on the great ideas of some famous authors.

Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.