When job hunting, the strongest, simplest thing you can do is write a thank you email after an interview. It's a powerful gesture that leaves a lasting impression and sets you apart from other ...

Letting yourself speak or write it out first helps drain out the extra emotion, clarify what you mean, and make sure you’re ...

“Literary Theory for Robots,” by Dennis Yi Tenen, a software engineer turned literature professor, shows how the “intelligence” in artificial intelligence is irreducibly human. By Jennifer Szalai When ...

Liberal arts education, as Fareed Zakaria, author of In Defense of a Liberal Education, defines it, is learning how to write and speak well, how to think with reason ...

The success of AI art hinges on the precision, creativity and understanding in the prompts. This guide outlines the structure of an AI art prompt and offers tips for writing them effectively with ...

Books about writing are a genre all their own, but books on how to write well almost exclusively default to the perspective of the white and cisgender experience of making books. The most popular and ...

In California, students between first and sixth grade will learn to write in cursive under a new state law. Yes, cursive. But is cursive a skill that students or adults actually need? Try out these ...

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of generating polished, grammatically correct text that meets academic standards, educators face a critical challenge: How can we teach students ...

“We live with mystery,” the poet Mark Strand notes, “but we don’t like the feeling. I think we should get used to it.” I never met Strand, though I saw him read back in 1999. That was the year I spent ...

In the business world you need both technical and communication skills to do your job well. In particular, your written communication skills (writing is the most common way we communicate in the ...

THE ARMY UNIVERSITY, FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas – There’s a field manual, standard operating procedure, or Army regulation for every Soldier task and mission. The Chief of Staff of the Army’s Harding ...

Teaching students to write is no easy feat, and it’s a topic that has often been discussed on this blog. Penny Kittle teaches first-year writers at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She was ...