College composition isn’t just about turning in papers—it’s about learning to think critically, communicate with purpose, and adapt your voice for different audiences. From crafting thesis statements ...

Composing an essay in earnest is decidedly not “schlep work,” yet it’s clear that: 1) many of my students see it this way, 2) ...

Kylie Lee Baker explains her latest horror novel, how Chuck Wendig helped inspire it, and her research into the lives of ...

We are drowning in a sea of abysmal, artificially generated prose. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. It’s seeping into inboxes, infecting publications and ruining the internet (again). A favorite ...

Stone Age artifacts discovered in a German cave could push back the origins of writing by 30,000 years. willbrasil - stock.adobe.com The origins of writing aren’t set in stone. The ancient cave ...

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Stone Age people 40,000 years ago used a simple form of writing comparable in complexity to the earliest stages of the world’s first writing system, cuneiform, according to a study of mysterious signs ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. ChatGPT and food-delivery droids came to my campus at roughly the ...

Written words can do more than communicate. They can also unlock the writer’s ability to process distress, identify hurtful feelings and take control of personal conflict. Emily Johnston, a writing ...

For all of our flaws, there is one thing that I absolutely loathe about my generation — we’ve internalized the avoidant attachment style. Avoidant attachment is a subconscious emotional process in ...

Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create distance from it.

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