Most humans like games. But what are games, exactly? Not in a philosophical sense, but in the sense of “what exactly are their worky bits, so we know how to make them?” [Raph Koster] ...

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A University of Oklahoma student is in the national spotlight for claiming religious discrimination after she failed a ...

Starting this year, some colleges have changed or removed essay prompts that referenced diversity from their admissions ...

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Finals season always seems to arrive with a stack of essays that grows faster than my ability to write them.  Even as a ...

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No writer wants to create the textual equivalent of the 3-hour film that puts folks to sleep if they don’t leave early, writes.

A college student's psychology essay has prompted an online culture war, after she was failed for seemingly quoting from the ...