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

Writing is not simply a matter of expressing pre-existing thoughts clearly. It’s the process through which ideas are produced and refined. Of all the pearls of wisdom I’ve picked up over the years, ...

One of my personal mantras about writing is that writing is thinking. Writing involves both the expression and the exploration of an idea, where the writing itself changes the shape of the original ...

Recently I raised the subject of ChatGPT with a group of Ph.D. students, on the cusp of faculty careers. Which writing task would they like to hand over to a bot? And which one would they rather not ...

Artificial intelligence systems that generate sustained conversations in response to user input ("generative AI") have captured headlines recently. Such composing tools offer challenges and ...

Student course reviews have assigned a clear epithet to the classes offered in Princeton’s creative writing department: “easy.” While most comments address the low workload and time commitment, even ...