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When Ellen Webster began writing thank-you notes nearly a decade ago, she didn't set out to change her life. Simply, she was trying to hold it together: her husband was diagnosed with cancer, her son ...

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...

It’s my ninth grade English class, and we are at the end of our unit on “A Raisin in the Sun.” We were writing an essay on the American Dream and the barriers marginalized people experience as they ...

I was early to the generative AI wave in higher education: I was among the first professors who teach writing to publish in an academic journal about generative AI and critical thinking, and I am now ...

Best-selling and award-winning authors spoke to us about how canines can spark creativity. Credit...Videos by Aubrey Trinnaman, Robin Schwartz and Lauren Segal Supported by By Alexandra Alter Like ...

Pennsylvania students will soon join a growing number of their peers nationwide practicing the looping, connected script of cursive writing—part of a broader national revival of the once-standard ...

Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create distance from it.