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Many teachers have complained that the test spoon-feeds students the information they need to write the essay, instead of testing what they learned during the school year.

If your writing is formal and stiff, or if it reads like a college essay instead of an expose on your life, people will have trouble getting through the book.

The furious complaints against the prize winner by a former minister of his and another essayist, Nariaki Nakayama, hardly help Mr Aso: Mr Nakamaya rants that the victory of General Tamogami's weak-kneed essay instead of his own is proof that the jury was hijacked by the pacifists and Commies in Japan's teacher's union.

Trained as a journalist, Philbrick once explained his decision to include a bibliographic essay instead of footnotes or references to works of scholarship in his text: "I wanted to remove the scholarly apparatus that so often gets in the way of the plot in academic history".

All of them opted to write a reflective essay instead of attending an integrity violation resolution meeting that would have gone on their academic record in the university.

It feels as if she's dutifully responding to an essay question instead of letting a great story tell itself.

He paid homage to them in 1971 in the essay "How Instead of Being Educated in College, I Was Graduated From Libraries".

Others employed the sleight of hand satirised by Michael Chabon in this (typically) excellent essay and instead of blackening McCarthy's good name with the SF brand turned "to words such as 'parable' or 'fable' to warm the author's bathwater a little".

But it's probably a misnomer to call it a memoir, and easier to enjoy if one thinks of it as a collection of essays instead.

Chabon, for his part, had earlier taken up the cudgels on her behalf in an interview during the controversy about her essay Motherlove, but, instead of assailing individuals, portrayed her as a victim of the culture of the "slagosphere", where anyone with their head above the parapet is seen as fair game.

Correction: An earlier edition of this article mistakenly referred to Willocq's photo essay as "Black Ebony" instead of "White Ebony".