Olivier Knox is the son of college professors and worked in admissions as a student at his dream school. He has a 100% ...

Re “The Lobotomized Weasel School of Writing,” Commentary, May 20: I vehemently disagree with Crispin Sartwell’s characterization of the five-paragraph essay as “hoo-ha.” While he explains that ...

With a bit of satire, retired University of Georgia education professor Peter Smagorinsky takes aim at the panic over ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence program that can generate readable essays in ...

Students use ChatGPT and other AI-powered tools to write college papers, let’s not pretend this isn’t so. However, large language models (LLM), no matter how massively trained and fine-tuned, cannot ...

COLUMBIA, Missouri --Student essays always seem to be riddled with the same sorts of flaws. So sociology professor Ed Brent decided to hand the work off -- to a computer. Students in Brent's ...

Most adults can remember when taking a writing test meant sitting down with a paper and pencil, then scribbling out sentences and erasing mistakes until the time ran out. For many students today, ...

Would you rather have an actual person score your carefully crafted essay, or an automated software program designed for that purpose? I’d still take the flawed human being any day—assuming, of course ...

If you are a teacher, the probability is high that some of the essays you are collecting from students were actually written by an algorithm. How do you handle this brave new frontier? Algorithms that ...

Writing is more than a skill, and we risk further declines in literacy if we don't teach it. Artificial intelligence has spawned a new creation, ChatGPT, that can produce well written essays in the ...