In an increasingly digital world, children still enjoy the sensory power of being able to touch the books they read.
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When asked, students say that touch is important in developing reading and writing skills. Research backs them up.
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Gradually, with more life experience, I have gained perspective and poetic nerve.
A Muslim protester shouts at security personnel on the streets of Shaheen Bagh, a neighborhood in Delhi, in 2020.
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Thanks to a strong oral Urdu literary tradition in South Asia, poems from the past linger in the popular imagination.
Larry David, the creator and star of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Larry David has called time on the misanthropic cult TV comedy classic after 12 seasons and 120 episodes.
Fostering belonging for Indigenous students through courses, as well as through dedicated campus spaces, matters.
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It’s possible to work with restricted resources to design and implement creative initiatives to serve the particular needs of Indigenous students at university.
Even the best paragraphs may have room for improvement.
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Learning how to produce polished prose can greatly enhance your value on the job.
An illustration from Christine de Pizan’s ‘The Book of the City of Ladies.’
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By compiling stories about the accomplishments of women, Christine set out to build an allegorical city where women and their achievements would be safe from sexist insults and slander.
Today’s undergraduates are plunged into a sea of texts, information and technology they have immense difficulty navigating, and artificial intelligence tools for writing aren’t the solution.
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Undergraduate writing courses are about learning to think, synthesize and judge the credibility of sources — and interact with an audience.
America’s biggest book publishers originally viewed LGBTQ+ romance as a niche market.
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It’s tempting to see this trend as a sign of the times. But the biggest book publishers started changing their approach only once they realized they were leaving money on the table.
Creating the alphabet took thousands of years.
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Turns out ‘A’ didn’t have to be the first letter in the alphabet, nor ‘Z’ the last.
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Research suggests the act of creative writing can have therapeutic benefits.
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I want to help people without prior knowledge of art history write about issues that affect them – through the prism of an artwork.
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Evidence suggests that writing was probably invented in southern Iraq sometime before 3000BC. But what happened next?
Louisa May Alcott took part in a 19th-century literary culture of anonymity and guessing games.
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By disguising her name, Alcott could publish in less prestigious venues without worrying about tarnishing her literary reputation.
A. S. Byatt in 1999.
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In Byatt’s fiction, northern locations become emblems of the climate crisis and of how human actions have detrimental effects on the whole planet.
Many educators say they are worried about being unable to keep up with advances in AI.
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A survey about college writing instructors’ fears and anxieties about AI demonstrates that student cheating isn’t their only concern. And in fact, many have embraced it as a teaching tool.
Taylor Swift performing her Eras tour.
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Men in the 1700s penned vehement letters about the way women dressed, slut-shaming them as “cork-rumped devils”.
We see the teacher lay out the tightrope … as the young writer clenches their toes and steps out above the air.
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What makes a great writer? A key element is the right teacher. Belinda Castles reflects on her own guides, as do authors such as Margaret Drabble, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Paul Theroux in a new book.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in 2004, shortly after the publication of ‘Purple Hibiscus.’
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African immigrant writers possess particularly acute insights into the way race and racism affect daily life in the US.
Does AI enhance or cripple a person’s analytical skills?
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Scholars differ over whether having students use AI in their assignments will help or hurt their careers after graduation.