Piece on AI for the Daily Star

New op-ed on reframing AI in terms of technological transformations that is the norm in the history or writing. AI is the Printing Press Reborn Main point: writing as thinking has nothing to worry about from AI. ChatGPT, to paraphrase Plato’s classic beef with writing, is unthinking.

Don’t Teach in a Vacuum: How Literary Nonfiction Prepares Us for Major Works

Kate Hoffman has taught for 25 years across public and private schools and at many levels—middle, high school, and college. For many years she taught…Don’t Teach in a Vacuum: How Literary Nonfiction Prepares Us for Major Works

Why write?

I’ve been clearing out my book shelves. Getting rid of anything that I think I won’t actually look at again. It’s a pretty dusty dirty task as some …Why write?

A Writing Community

The first two posts (post one, post two) in the writing and publishing series were easy to write. This one isn’t because there is just so much to …A Writing Community

Paraphrasing with Purpose

If you do not see the podcast player, click here to listen. Curt pushed away from his computer in frustration. He felt like he’d been staring at the …Paraphrasing with Purpose

Fostering Students’ Intercultural Competence (Piece in Inside Higher Ed)

This Article Previously Appeared on Inside Higher Education. International students are legion in the student bodies of colleges and universities in the United States; according to the Institute of International Education, their number now stands at more than a million. Such students are an important feature of American higher education institutions. It means all students …

Discussing Stereotypes, Prejudices, and Discrimination in Your Social Psychology Course

Thomas Gilovich is the Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology and codirector of the Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research at…Discussing Stereotypes, Prejudices, and Discrimination in Your Social Psychology Course

Piece in Inside Higher Education

Column I just wrote for Inside Higher Education. In it I talk about the Intercultural Competence First Year Writing I co-taught with a colleague last semester. Fostering Intercultural Competence: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/teaching/2023/07/12/fostering-intercultural-competence-among-diverse-students

Mind the gap (in the literature)

Hey – Before I start, here are some upcoming events I’m doing at Cambridge University, which are open to the public: A lecture at Wolfson College, …Mind the gap (in the literature)

Takeaways on Writing Studies from the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture

I attended the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture recently. The honoree for this year was Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Pulitzer Prize winning writer. Images from the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture from the 2023 Penn World Voices Festival. It was a fantastic lecture and it was fascinating to see how he thought through his …