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High School Essay Writing
Ideas, evidence, and clear writing
A practical, step-by-step guide for high school students planning, writing, revising, and submitting essays.
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Essay Writing Guides
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Guide · Academic Writing
College & University Essay Writing
Academic argument, research, and revision
A guide to developing, researching, writing, revising, and submitting academic essays at college or university.
Guide · Academic Writing
Professional Essay Writing
Evidence, ethics, and editorial practice
A guide to planning, writing, revising, and submitting a rigorous essay for professional publication.
Writing Craft and Editing
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Writing a Romantic Comedy
Balancing the pull of intimacy with the engine of comedic exposure
A practical craft guide for authors on structuring a romantic comedy, sharpening prose humour, designing organic obstacles, and navigating the registers of comedic intimacy.
Article · Writing Craft
Depth and Clarity
What might a more capable thinker notice that we overlook?
A thought exercise exploring how ideas about qualitative superintelligence might sharpen the questions we ask when developing an essay.
Guide · Writing Craft Advisory
Poe’s Machine for Producing Emotion
What target-first composition can still teach writers
A source-audited craft essay on Edgar Allan Poe’s unity of effect, the limits of the machine metaphor, and a practical method for designing stories around a deliberate reader experience.
Guide · Writing Craft
How to Evaluate Written Work
A practical method for criticism grounded in evidence and judgement
A source-audited guide to evaluating novels, screenplays, poetry, nonfiction, and other written work through purpose, form, evidence, effect, and context.
Guide · Writing Craft Advisory
Who Sees?
Separating voice from vision in narrative design
A source-audited craft guide to voice, focalization, narrative information, perspective shifts, and practical point-of-view revision.
Guide · Writing Craft Advisory
The Unreliable Narrator
How narrators misreport, misread, misjudge, and leave crucial things unsaid
A source-audited craft guide to unreliable narration, its main theoretical distinctions, textual signals, ethical risks, and use in fiction and film.
Guide · Editing
The Editor’s Dual Mandate
A Canadian and U.S. risk-spotting framework—not legal advice
An educational framework for editorial verification and defamation-risk spotting, with Canadian, British Columbia, and U.S. authorities and explicit limits on its use.