The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words ...

They have just finished a performance about the American Revolution and colonial life that featured a variety of different ...

Recently I raised the subject of ChatGPT with a group of Ph.D. students, on the cusp of faculty careers. Which writing task would they like to hand over to a bot? And which one would they rather not ...

A student reads short, anonymous passages written by classmates and will vote on which one should move to a final round, where an AI analysis will highlight the literary techniques used in each text ...

Using a tech tool that gamifies writing helps students grow together, celebrate each other’s work, and hone their emerging ...

SAGES seminars offer opportunities to connect course content with successful writing strategies. In addition to emphasizing core skills of academic writing (e.g., summary, paraphrase, integrating ...

Sritama Chatterjee is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. You can find her on Twitter @SritamaBarna. Given this situation, it may be challenging ...

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

On a blustery spring Thursday, just after midterms, I went out for noodles with Alex and Eugene, two undergraduates at New York University, to talk about how they use artificial intelligence in their ...

Michele Haiken isn’t quite ready to do away with student essays. But the veteran English teacher at New York’s Rye Middle School would much rather get her students writing podcasts and movie scripts, ...

The first thing you may notice about Jim Coan’s intimate class is that every student is writing. No one is typing on a laptop or tablet. No phones are out. It’s very analog. The professor of ...

(This is the third post in a five-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) I’ve got a few that top that list. None of them is an English paper—or blog posts, for that matter. The ...