In The Sunday Oregonian, an entire section is devoted to point-of-view journalism. This is opinion writing, ranging from letters to the editor to full-blown essays on the writers' view of issues ...

A common teaching tool among English teachers is the five-paragraph essay because it helps students write about any given topic. It’s been the building block of composition classes for decades, and ...

The Commentary essay by Richard Ullman (“Zero-Tolerance-Policy Overcorrection,” Sept. 14, 2016) led me to empathize with the author’s obvious frustrations and concerns about disruptive behaviors.

The recent essay of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, “The Church and the Scandal of Sexual Abuse,” was an apt summary of a long life of ecclesial and theological service, as I commented previously. At the ...