In a time with a million ways to stay in touch, staying connected in a way that doesn’t slowly degrade into faceless pictures over Snapchat or an occasional text can be hard. Losing connections with the people you care about can be scary and disheartening. Through young adulthood — a moment when your physical location, […]
Two prominent novelists have broken with PEN America over the organization’s decision to platform controversial actor and outspoken ceasefire opponent Mayim Bialik, as well as its relative silence on the unfolding genocide in Gaza (which so far has claimed the lives of at least 120 writers, poets , and journalists ). National Book Award finalist […]
Share International students might not have received much teaching in English before coming to university, leaving them less confident in their academic writing ability. Even if their writing is skilled, the common misconception that native English language users are more proficient than foreign language users can easily exacerbate self-doubt. This piece introduces digital advisers, who […]
In an ever more digital world, pen and paper are increasingly getting replaced with screens and keyboards in classrooms. Now, a new study has investigated neural networks in the brain during hand- and typewriting. The researchers showed that connectivity between different brain regions is more elaborate when letters are formed by hand. This improved brain […]
When Emily Cataneo and Arshia Simkin graduated from their Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing program in 2019, they realized there weren’t many opportunities outside of a university setting to improve creative writing. From there, Redbud Writing Project, the Triangle’s only adult creative writing school, was born. Founded by Cataneo and Simkin in 2019, […]
Large language models (LLMs) have made impressive advancements in generating coherent text for various activities and domains, including grammatical error correction (GEC), text simplification, paraphrasing, and style transfer. One of the emerging skills of LLMs is their ability to generalize and perform tasks that they have never seen before. To achieve this, LLMs are fine-tuned […]
