Tag: Writing
What’s behind the astonishing rise in LGBTQ+ romance literature?
Christine Larson, University of Colorado Boulder and Ashley Carter, University of Colorado Boulder
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Writing instructors are less afraid of students cheating with ChatGPT than...
Daniel Ernst, Texas Woman's University and Troy Hicks, Central Michigan University
When ChatGPT launched a year ago, headlines flooded...
20 years after the publication of ‘Purple Hibiscus,’ a generation of...
Simon Lewis, College of Charleston
Twenty years ago, in October 2003, 26-year-old Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto...
AI scores in the top percentile of creative thinking
Erik Guzik, University of Montana
Of all the forms of human intellect that one might expect artificial intelligence to...
This course teaches how to judge a book by its cover...
Lynda Kachurek, University of Richmond
Unusual Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S....
The 5,000-year history of writer’s block
Joyce Kinkead, Utah State University
Ann Patchett, who has written eight novels and five books of nonfiction, says that...
Handwritten diaries may feel old fashioned, but they offer insights that...
Paula Vene Smith, Grinnell College
The first time I taught a college course called “The London Diary” for young...
How Octavia E. Butler mined her boundless curiosity to forge a...
Alyssa Collins, University of South Carolina
In 2021, Alyssa Collins was awarded a yearlong Octavia E. Butler Fellowship from...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
