American writing instruction has always involved some level of torture. What happens when technology makes it easy?

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Nearly a century later, her granddaughter, now a sociologist at Whitman College and author of “Love Letters: Saving Romance in the Digital Age,” has saved several of those letters. While they often ...

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The Reynolds School’s Journalism Writing Center offers one-on-one coaching, helping more than 450 students build stronger writing skills.

Andrew Robinson is the author of Lost Languages (2002) and other books on scripts and decipherment. He is based in London. How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct ...

The ‘Rents reflect on 2025 and look ahead to what they hope to take into the new year with them. Plus! Poetry! If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Thanks! Check your phone ...

Research by Mueller and Oppenheimer (2014) compared students who typed lecture notes on laptops with those who wrote them by hand during the same time. In terms of immediate results, laptop users ...

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A University of Warwick-led analysis of almost 5,000 student-authored reports suggests that student writing has become more polished and formal since the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022—but ...