For some people, writing comes naturally. It’s how they make sense of the world. For others, it’s an acquired skill. I fall ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says GPT-5’s writing got harder to read because the company prioritized coding and reasoning. He’s promising GPT 5.x will bring back clearer prose without losing technical gains.

Everyday writing tools are quietly deciding which characters lead, which serve, and which never appear at all. In hundreds of thousands of AI-generated stories, those choices consistently favored ...

Whether it’s the cold weather or the post-holiday malaise, I often find myself desiring a getaway around this time of ...

In May, I was confronted with a robot version of my writer self. It was made, at my request, by a Silicon Valley startup called Writer, which specializes in building artificial-intelligence tools that ...

Experts tend to complete writing tasks more quickly than novices by combining or skipping steps due to years of practice and mastery. Our students often come to us as novices who are still learning ...

It seems to me that I have wanted to write for the whole of my life. The intensity of this insistence, despite its implausibility, suggests an emotional, rather than literal, accuracy. I think my life ...

In fall of 2024, I led a workshop for postdocs on how to engage undergraduates in the face of so much competition for their attention. Afterward, when we met for lunch, the postdocs quickly turned the ...