The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT has forced educators to confront foundational questions about what we teach and why. One of the most important questions is: in the age of ...

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When ChatGPT appeared in November 2022, most educators felt it could become a threat and change the whole niche forever. No wonder: This language model algorithm is smart enough to produce logical and ...

Peering over my laptop, I see a few dozen nonfiction books lining the edge of my desk. Disparate in quality and content, they all have one thing in common: They want me to learn something. As an ...

“Much of my first-year writing courses are about helping students to think through their reading process,” Malone said. “There is all this research in the field that backs that up, that reading helps ...

In the world of college composition, we spend a lot of time talking about how to teach writing — with as many opinions on that as there are instructors — but very little time talking about why we ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

Tackling first-year composition at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is no small feat. With over 8,000 learners – each with unique backgrounds and experience – moving through our Composition I ...

One way to learn is to teach. If you’ve been asked to teach anything — a soccer skill, Italian cooking, news writing — you know that the process of preparing to teach involves intense learning. So ...

If you listen to college administrators long enough, you might start to believe that the biggest problem facing academia is diversity. Aside from changing their recruitment and acceptance strategies, ...

Roxane Gay is teaching a MasterClass on writing to impact social change. Participants enrolled in the new course will learn how to embrace their personal identities, revisit trauma with respect and ...