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Essays are central to students’ and teachers’ development as thinkers in their fields. In Crafting Presence, Nicole B. Wallack develops an approach to teaching writing with the literary essay that hol
The carefully crafted, meditative essays in On the Shoreline of Knowledge sometimes start from unlikely objects or thoughts, a pencil or some fragments of commonplace conversation, but they soon lead
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To celebrate The American Scholar’s thirtieth anniversary, Hiram Haydn and Betsy Saunders brought together fifty representative selections published throughout those years. These selections include th
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Essay Writing offers both staff and students a solid reference for one of the main methods used for assessing knowledge and understanding - the written essay.Ay In contextualizing essay writing withi
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