'Misleading' advert for essay-writing service banned by watchdog over promoting cheating
The Advertising Standards Authority rules Oxbridge Essays website implied students could submit purchased essays with no risks...
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PayPal to reject essay-writing firms
The payment services firm acts on warnings about university essays being sold online....
7 Ways to Defend Yourself from Writing Coach Scams
Industry experts and legitimate writing coaches provide advice on how to spot writing coach scams and shield yourself accordingly. The profession of “writing coach” has come under recent scrutiny. The outcry follows a July 2018 article ...
The Writer’s Digest Podcast, Episode 3: Writing and Publishing Short Stories and Essays — Interview with Windy Lynn Harris
Welcome, welcome, writers! From fiction to nonfiction, whatever your genre persuasion—whether you write personal essays in the voice of your cat or epic how-to articles about how to get bubble gum out of your kid’s hair—the Writer’s...
Representation in Fiction: How to Write Characters Whose Experiences Are Outside of Your Own
As publishing endeavors to address inclusion and diverse representation in fiction, an inevitable question arises: Can authors write characters whose experience is outside of their own? This article appeared in the February 2019 edition of...
Dealing With The Overwhelming Pressure To Succeed In School
As a student, we are paying so much money to attend college and/or university. What you don’t understand until you arrive is that your grades will not stay where they were. Marks drop in post-secondary, sometimes significantly. This can l...
New Year, New Me?
How many times have you made a resolution in the new year only to let it fizzle out and die within a month or two? Don’t fret! It happens to the best of us. New Year’s resolutions are often easy to make but can be hard to follow through...
Free Time Saving Tools for Students
So much to do, so little time. Student life is demanding, to say the least. Fortunately, we’ve got an endless buffet of time saving tools at our disposal. Best of all, most of them are free! Here’s my go-to tools: No, I’m not go...
Blessed Are the Legend-Makers: 11 Tolkien Quotes for Writers
As is the case for many sci-fi and fantasy writers and dabblers, there is no author who has ignited my imagination and influenced my writing more than J.R.R. Tolkien. The worlds he created and stories he spun have enchanted generations of w...
How To Win A Scholarship: The 5 Most Important Things
Scholarship applications are challenging. First, you have to search for opportunities and you need to be very diligent during that process. Then, the application process starts. You’ll be writing one essay after another, while waiting for...