Recent content by Wella

I'm a junior now, and looking back at my freshman self, I cringe at how many sketchy websites I trusted with my money and my grades. I've been scammed twice, received plagiarized garbage once, and wasted probably hundreds of dollars on services that promised the world and delivered nothing. But...

I've been writing seriously for years and always used 'tone' and 'voice' interchangeably. Turns out, they're totally different! A blog post finally broke it down in a way that clicked: your voice is your unique personality as a writer—it stays consistent across everything you write. Tone is...

Last semester, my professor spent an entire class on openings, and it transformed how I think about structuring the start of an essay. She broke it down into three parts: the hook, the context, and the thesis. The hook grabs attention—maybe a surprising fact, a question, or a short anecdote...