The Common Core State Standards and the state assessments designed to measure them are demanding increased critical reading and analytical writing from students, and I’ve noticed a shift from teachers ...

When preparing to apply to a graduate program, one of the main questions prospective students ask is which standardized test, GMAT or GRE, should they take. Like many other MBA and MS programs around ...

Herkimer College has launched of a new associate in arts degree program in English, offering students a comprehensive introduction to literary study while strengthening their writing, analytical, and ...

The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), accepted as an admission criterion by over 2,300 business schools across the globe, will now include the Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) section ...

You don't have to wax eloquent or be the modern day equivalent of Shakespeare, Byron or Eliot to score well in Analytical Writing Assessment, a component of the GRE/ GMAT. Part II: Argument Analysis ...

The Educational Testing Service on Wednesday announced changes in the format of the Graduate Record Examinations General Test for the first time in 20 years. As of October 1, 2002, one section of the ...

In the kind of writing most of us do every day—the kind of writing I’ve mainly been concerned with in these columns—the only criteria that matter are clarity and precision. The kind of writing that ...