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    First-gen college student here: What exactly does the california student aid commission do and how do I know if I qualify for aid?

    I'm a high school senior and the first person in my family to apply for college. Everyone keeps talking about FAFSA and financial aid, but I'm honestly overwhelmed. I keep seeing references to the california student aid commission (CSAC) and I'm not sure what their role is. My counselor...
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    I'm writing fiction and confused about using contractions in narrative versus dialogue

    I'm working on a novel and I'm stuck on a stylistic question about using contractions in narrative versus dialogue. In dialogue, it's obvious—characters should sound natural, so they use contractions the way people actually speak . But what about the narrative passages that aren't dialogue...
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    I thought I understood author's purpose, but now I'm questioning everything about the two factors that determine why authors write

    I've always been good at identifying whether a text is meant to persuade, inform, or entertain. That's what they taught us in elementary school, right? But now I'm in college and my professor is asking way more nuanced questions about the two factors that determine why authors write. She says...
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    I'm a historian and the death of cursive writing is a crisis for archives

    I work in a university archives, and I'm here to tell you that the decline of cursive writing is creating a genuine crisis for historical research. We have centuries of documents—letters, diaries, government records, personal papers—all written in cursive. And the current generation of students...
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