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I used to believe I taught the one genre that artificial intelligence couldn’t touch. For 15 years, I’ve guided college students through the deeply human work of personal narrative, helping them ...

BENNINGTON — “A Continued Clap of Thunder: Essays to Celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution” will be published around Labor Day. It is edited by Damien McCaffery and Tyler Resch.

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Artificial intelligence chatbots may be able to write a quick essay, but a new study from MIT found that their use comes at a cognitive cost. A study published by the Massachusetts Institute of ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Chungin “Roy” Lee stepped onto Columbia University’s campus this past fall ...

Each year teaching academic writing brings new challenges, and I often find myself reflecting on the strategies that educators implement to make the writing process run more seamlessly in their ...