It’s still unclear how AI could be used to support academic writing without meaningfully outsourcing one’s thinking.

You know the feeling: a professor assigns an analytical paper, and your mind immediately jumps to a film you could talk about for hours. Maybe it is Get Out, Barbie, The Social Network, Parasite, ...

Research on the psychology of persuasion suggests you should consider your audience before offering more arguments.

What readers need is the data that would tell them whether the idea works where it counts—on a significant scale in firms ...

For persuasive legal writing, how you frame the narrative matters as much as, if not more than, how you apply the traditional IRAC structure. You drive the narrative by controlling the order, emphasis ...

Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism. Earlier this year, the company released an 84-page document titled Claude’s “constitution ...

'The Studio' creator said people who are thinking about using the technology to aid their writing skills should try another occupation: "Go do something else." By McKinley Franklin Don’t expect Seth ...

Prompts that require students to make a claim, support it with evidence, and provide reasoning are common across the curriculum, especially in secondary classes. Teachers often provide scaffolds such ...

If you still think you can’t write an argumentative essay, think again. Remember the last time you convinced your roommate to get the pizza topping you like. Or that time you ranted on TikTok about ...

If we want students to learn to write, AI tools shouldn’t have much of a role. If we don’t think students need to learn to write anymore, I’m not sure what we’re doing here. The challenge of ...

The quote came from an essay titled "Real Patriots Ask Questions," which Sagan co-authored with Ann Druyan, his widow and frequent collaborator. What's Undetermined Because of the nature of the ...