Authors and editors in the humanities know that journals are more likely to accept scholarly essays with strong introductions and that such essays are more likely to influence academic conversations.

Some years ago, I spent a morning being interviewed for tenure-track jobs in English and that afternoon as the grad student member of an interview committee. Never have I experienced such cognitive ...

Essays look more like extended blog posts than journal articles: they're short (typically about the length of this column), personal, and political. "We're constantly telling writers, no, really, say ...

The word essay derives from the title of a 1580 collection of writings by the Frenchman Michel de Montaigne. In his Essays, Montaigne set down his thoughts on whatever subject snared his ...

Students from Snider and Whitko high schools won top honors in a Journal Gazette essay contest focused on career and technical education. The top three essay writers will receive a combined $1,000.

Guernica, a non-profit journal publishing work at the intersection of art and politics, published a powerful essay by a literary interpreter working in Israel and her experience in the wake of October ...