In this age of screens, smartphones, virtual assistants, and voice-enabled speakers, we are constantly bombarded by visual and auditory suggestions of things to do, products to buy, and media to consume. Yet are all these messages created equal? According to new research published in Psychological Science, the answer is no: Recommendations that are heard rather […]
A lot seems to be shifting under our feet in the way writing comes to us in 2023. Recently The Wall Street Journal uncovered a hitherto unknown effort by Facebook to suppress political content in the wake of the events of January 6, 2021, a measure that resulted in diminishing “high-quality news” relative to “material […]
A Character Poem Writing a character in a novel is a mystery to me. But a poem? A character in a poem has no deus ex machina in the last line. The poet is left at the end of the poem with an ambitious question: Was it worth it? The line structure, the meter, the […]
Editor Michael Woodson reflects on past writing ups and downs and lists five changes he’s making to his writing process this year. Our most recent episode of Writer’s Digest Presents was all about measuring success as writers. My colleagues and I sat down for a conversation about how we measure our individual success, what success […]
The internet can’t stop talking about an AI program that can write such artful prose that it seems to pass the Turing Test. College students are writing papers with it, internet marketers are using it to write marketing copy , and numerous others are just having earnest and fun conversations with it about the meaning […]
Just as pocket calculators, personal computers, and smartphones have posed threats to students learning math skills, AI (artificial intelligence) seems to be the new tool poised to undermine the use of writing assignments to assess student learning. In November 2022, a tool called ChatGPT made headlines for its ability to “write” any content. As an […]
I don’t know about you, but I’m not a fan of writing on a tablet. Yes, if you like to actually put pen to paper, many of the current generation models have a stylus with haptic feedback that really do the job. Also, I can type much faster than I can write, so quite often, […]
A book over 30 years in the making by a Dells author tells a gripping story of survival on a faraway island. Amy Laundrie, the author of 11 books and a former teacher in the School District of Wisconsin Dells who writes columns for the Wisconsin Dells Events, published “Stranded on Castaway Island” in 2022 […]
Every so often, you find that you can’t think of a single thing to write about — that’s where I am right now. I figured I’d write about that. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Every so often, I’d wager […]
A new NEH grant will support UNC scholars’ creation of an immersive web environment designed to bring Jane Austen’s writing room — and her world — to life. An illustration of Jane Austen’s writing room for the project “Jane Austen’s Desk,” which is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Imagine getting to know […]
