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A reflective essay is a paper where you look back on a personal experience and explain what you learned from it. It focused on how the event has changed your thinking or helped you grow. Think of it ...

But in my last 10-week term at Dartmouth, instead of squeezing the last drop of value out of my tuition, I’m using a rare ...

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Pages is a journaling technique based on Julie Cameron's '90s text, The Artist's Way. I tried it for a week to see if it ...

I like to break my books up into the smallest possible units. “Writing Tools” set the standard: 50 chapters at about 1,000 words per chapter. (Total: 50,000-plus words.) Let’s do the math again: 200 ...

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Here is how to write about myself. Understand the Purpose of Your Writing Before you begin, understand why you are writing about yourself. The tone and content of your piece will depend on the context ...