Late at night, a student sits at her desk while the soft glow of a laptop screen casts shadows across the room. Outside, the city street is quiet, but inside, her mind is racing. Fingers hover over ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed college writing. As paper drafts are increasingly co-written with AI, ...

Researchers at Georgia Tech and Stanford have developed DraftMarks, a tool that visually tracks and displays how students use AI during the writing process. Instead of detecting AI in a finished paper ...

Great teachers know how to improve myriad aspects of student writing: idea generation, organization, evidence marshaling, diction, grammar, and more. But even with tools and techniques in each of ...

Researchers from Georgia Tech and Stanford have developed DraftMarks, an open-source tool that visually annotates documents to show how AI assisted in the writing process. Instead of estimating AI ...

By weaving play, reflection, and calm into classroom routines, teachers can manage young students’ spring fever—and end the ...

The art of writing, invented roughly 5,000 years ago, represents a blip in human history. It’s younger than agriculture, music, and construction. And as recently as the Revolutionary War, a majority ...

Near the end of 2023, a popular YouTube creator known as hbomberguy released a video on plagiarism — a topic often confined to conversations in composition classrooms. The four-hour video, “Plagiarism ...

As generative AI becomes more advanced and accessible, it’s helpful to revise assignments in ways that deter unauthorized use while promoting genuine learning. Here are detailed strategies for ...

The Berkman Klein Center offers short‑term opportunities for Harvard students to share their perspectives on issues through the Center’s events or research priorities. These opportunities are designed ...

At a writing retreat I attended last month, my writing coach Jen Louden said, “The benefit of writing is the growth that comes. Any benefit to others is just a bonus.” It was an off-handed utterance I ...