This week I challenged my editor to face off against a machine. Barbara Kantrowitz gamely accepted, under one condition: “You have to file early.” Ever since ChatGPT arrived in 2022, many journalists ...

AI has quietly worked its way into almost every corner of teaching. Lesson planning, assessment design, rubric creation, ...

“Writing is the hardest work that doesn’t involve a pick ax,” my first college writing teacher told me. As much as I hear from people about their difficulties in facing the blank screen (or the blank ...

This is a somewhat uncomfortable thing to admit, but for a good chunk of my teaching career, most of the feedback I gave students on their writing was not meaningful. How do I know this? Well, in many ...

Your schedule does not permit attendance in a synchronous session. Your time zone makes scheduling a synchronous session difficult. Your internet connection is unreliable. You prefer the asynchronous ...

Providing feedback to students is one of the most interpersonal activities in any writing course (online or face-to- face), and therefore is one of the most impactful ways to develop your presence in ...

Academics tend to think of writing as an independent process. But it can be incredibly helpful to have other people look at your work. Peer review makes the writing process collaborative and ...

Ask students to take notes on their own drafts as they listen (Edgington, 2020) “Analysis of the literature revealed that students preferred this form of feedback over text-based feedback. Students ...

Emerging research in automated writing evaluation (AWE) has demonstrated its growing utility in language learning contexts through the provision of immediate, personalised feedback to support writing ...