Everyone knows that a good mower is the centerpiece of any lawn care toolkit, but you won’t keep your yard looking crisp throughout the growing season without a quality string trimmer to go with it.

AI writing may often read poorly, but that doesn’t always mean it’s easy to catch. AI detector software looks for surface signals such as word frequency, sentence length variation, statistical ...

Abram Anders (above, standing), associate professor of English and the Jonathan Wickert Professor of Innovation at Iowa State University, talks with undergraduate students during an experimental "AI ...

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Writing your very first movie can be both exciting and daunting. As a film student, you likely have plenty of creative ideas but may struggle with transforming those ideas into a compelling script.

In “Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits,” an essay published in 2013, the writer and translator Lydia Davis offers a cardinal rule: “work on your character.” (She happened on a variation of ...

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 ...

All Harvard College freshmen enrolled in expository writing courses were required to complete a three-part training module on artificial intelligence this semester, the first time the training has ...

Writing a research paper is brutal. Even after the experiments are done, a researcher still faces weeks of translating messy lab notes, scattered results tables, and half-formed ideas into a polished, ...

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Rather than hand off writing to chatbots, college students in pilots showed that they use them to brainstorm and help get started. Kriangsak Koopattanakij/iStock via Getty Images Debates about ...

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care, so she was berating me in front of children,” he says ...