Great piece in @NoemaMag by @lrhart about writing in the time of AI. As she says, AI can speed up the writing process, but “it doesn’t optimize quality." Do you use ChatGPT or other AI tools to write? https://t.co/GEcgbW08RX
I have a new piece out today in Persuasion, a tour of the why, what, and how of liberal education. I call for the wholesale reconstruction of the undergraduate curriculum and a fundamental shift in the professoriate's conception of its purpose.
https://t.co/7LFmjrTuur
Every so often I do this thing called Writers' Room, where writers of Montreal are invited to get together in one room. The next one is on February 5. Friends and mutuals, it would be great to see you.
Learn how to develop your personal writing voice and strategies for crafting original narratives that avoid the formulaic conventions of AI-generated prose with Laura Hartenberger on Saturday, October 11 from 3PM-4PM at the Peninsula Center Library! #PVLD https://t.co/GxBMxFb0JT
English is full of “lexical gaps,” words that are implied to exist but don’t, because we borrowed a bunch of words from Latin but not other, related words. Somebody made a chart to show it↓
New #craftessay:
"We advise student writers to minimize exposition, put plot points into dynamic scenes, and weave key contextual details into narratives...."
—Laura Hartenberger, "Show, Don’t Tell: What AI Can’t Do"
https://t.co/v3ot47RPDD