Your writing was flagged as AI. What does that actually mean?

As editors turn to imperfect AI detection tools to weed out machine-generated submissions, writers who say they were falsely ...
Opinion

I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
Harvard Medical School

Does academic writing have to be boring?

Universities are repositories of fascinating ideas. So why is academic writing so boring? Leonard Cassuto thinks it’s all a matter of keeping in mind that good writing is about keeping the reader ...
Miami University

Creative Writing

Creative writing students at Miami learn invaluable skills to help them inspire, engage with, and shape the world around them: attention to craft, style, and form to fully articulate your vision and ...
Forbes

Writing As Thinking: Why Writing Is Still A Critical Skill In Business

I was a science kid in high school; I loved physics and mathematics. When I learned my senior year that I was assigned to the English teacher with a reputation as the most rigorous in school, I ...
Cal Alumni Association

How Creative Writing Can Increase Students’ Resilience

Many of my seventh-grade students do not arrive at school ready to learn. Their families often face financial hardship and live in cramped quarters, which makes it difficult to focus on homework. The ...

The 5 Essential Letters You Should Write

Sometimes, life gives us prompts — like my lurching plane — that make us realize what we’ve left unsaid to someone we care ...
Forbes

Earning A Master’s In Creative Writing: What To Know Before Enrolling

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...
snhu

On the Write Track: Reframing How We Think About Teaching Writing

Tackling first-year composition at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is no small feat. With over 8,000 learners – each with unique backgrounds and experience – moving through our Composition I ...
Inside Higher Ed

Writing Is Thinking

Of all the pearls of wisdom I’ve picked up over the years, among the most valuable consists of just three words: intuition is bias. The Romantic poets may have believed that intuition offers special ...
umass

Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies

The letter of specialization in Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies (WRLS)* helps students to develop a stronger theoretical and practical understanding of writing. WRLS focuses on "everyday" ...

AI detector flags much of Florida education chief's writing as AI-generated

Florida's education commissioner appears to use AI to warn against students' use of AI.