Rather than hand off writing to chatbots, college students in pilots showed that they use them to brainstorm and help get started. Kriangsak Koopattanakij/iStock via Getty Images Debates about ...

Some writers plot their stories like blueprints. Every beat is mapped, every theme carefully threaded, every sentence calibrated toward meaning. Stephen Graham Jones is not one of those writers. Or at ...

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Communicating the worth of your work to the academic world – and beyond – starts with writing. Writing for a journal, turning your work into a book or reviewing existing research all require distinct ...

Academics tend to think of writing as an independent process. But it can be incredibly helpful to have other people look at your work. Peer review makes the writing process collaborative and ...

For novelist Madeline Cash, a copywriting job at Jack in the Box was as educational as any MFA program could have been. “I would sometimes have to write 500 headlines over a weekend that somehow ...

A single sentence from a faculty mentor cut deeper than I expected—because it wasn’t the first time my voice had been questioned. I spent decades believing I was not good enough to become a writer.

If Matthew McConaughey has to do something stressful, sometimes he’ll write himself a little note that says, “Just remember you’re going to die one day.” “It’s like, oh, that’s right,” said the ...

Morgan Wallen pulled back the curtain on his songwriting and recording process — and honestly, it’s mesmerizing. The video clip was shared by a fan Instagram account, but it comes from a longer video ...

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As another school year returns, large language models (LLMs) present difficult questions around learning, thinking, plagiarism and authorship for educators. As an assistant professor of English whose ...