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This week I challenged my editor to face off against a machine. Barbara Kantrowitz gamely accepted, under one condition: “You have to file early.” Ever since ChatGPT arrived in 2022, many journalists ...

Writing is critical for all students, but many students struggle to develop strong writing skills. New research suggests a technique called performance feedback could be a valuable tool for helping ...

“Writing is the hardest work that doesn’t involve a pick ax,” my first college writing teacher told me. As much as I hear from people about their difficulties in facing the blank screen (or the blank ...

Providing feedback to students is one of the most interpersonal activities in any writing course (online or face-to- face), and therefore is one of the most impactful ways to develop your presence in ...

This is a somewhat uncomfortable thing to admit, but for a good chunk of my teaching career, most of the feedback I gave students on their writing was not meaningful. How do I know this? Well, in many ...

Ask students to take notes on their own drafts as they listen (Edgington, 2020) “Analysis of the literature revealed that students preferred this form of feedback over text-based feedback. Students ...

Even before complications wrought by AI, faculty members and students alike have often dreaded college writing assignments—students because of painful past histories with the process and faculty ...