I spent the past few weeks on two projects to help improve students’ academic writing. The first was an intensive course I already mentioned in an earlier post (a post, incidentally, that led to a ...

In this fascinating video, we explore the journey of learning to write with your non-dominant hand. Discover effective techniques to enhance dexterity and neural connections while embarking on this ...

WE do not always realize that learning to write is partly a matter of instinct. This is so even of that writing which, as children, we learn in copybooks with engraved maxims at the head of the page.

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

But despite growing incentives to utilize large language models (LLMs), both incoming and returning UChicago students must ...

Though writing by hand is increasingly being eclipsed by the ease of computers, a new study finds we shouldn't be so quick to throw away the pencils and paper: handwriting helps people learn certain ...