I'm not a developer, but I was able to use locally-installed AI to create a writing app suited to my needs. Here's how.

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott Hutcheson teaches leadership at Purdue University. As we approach the new year, many leaders are setting goals to enhance ...

Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” has a famous opening: “One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.” The rest of the story ...

Artificial intelligence is absolutely everywhere these days, from generative AI chat tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini to music, photo and video creators like Dall-E, HeyGen and Suno AI. For many ...

I'm pretty bad at being an employee. I openly despise meetings, I say exactly what's on my mind, and I sincerely believe that many managers exist only to waste the time of otherwise productive people.

It seems to me that I have wanted to write for the whole of my life. The intensity of this insistence, despite its implausibility, suggests an emotional, rather than literal, accuracy. I think my life ...

Source: Stable Diffusion, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons I love teaching writing. It's my favorite job ever. Part of the reason it's fun is that I get to teach something I'm passionate about. But that's ...

Many of my seventh-grade students do not arrive at school ready to learn. Their families often face financial hardship and live in cramped quarters, which makes it difficult to focus on homework. The ...

The letter of specialization in Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies (WRLS)* helps students to develop a stronger theoretical and practical understanding of writing. WRLS focuses on "everyday" ...

Maybe you send your best friend reels or TikToks that made you think of them or of your relationship. The irony is that in a ...