If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

The DePauw University Style Guide provides writing style standards for publications created for DePauw’s external audiences. Also included are examples of correct grammar and forms about which people ...

Unless you prompt them really well, large language models (LLMs) are not that clever. You can’t punch in a few keys and expect War and Peace to come out the other side. It doesn’t work like that.

W henever I talk with colleagues about our students’ writing, we complain. Not only about the writing itself (which, every year, at every institution, is consistently but somehow surprisingly bad) but ...

In the beginning was the word. —John 1:1, wondering how it all began It’s all text. —Rosamel Segundo Benavides Venegas, during his early postmodernist period Source: BrAt82/Shutterstock Good writing ...

Writing can at times feel like birthing a Honda Civic: It's hard. It's not pretty. You sweat a lot. And writing can feel like inching your way along a pitch-black, long tunnel. You can make out only ...

There is an important and influential type of public writing that scholars have described as the “classic style.” The classic text to teach this style is titled “Clear and Simple as the Truth,” ...

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As the fall semester is beginning its descent to the fast-approaching holidays, I am mindful that slews of papers will soon make their way to me for grading. Reflecting on these writing assignments, I ...