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.

Note: In the “Are You Working?” series, a Ph.D. and academic-writing coach answers questions from faculty members and graduate students about scholarly motivation and productivity. This month’s ...

Those in the know can spot AI writing from a mile away. Generic garbage with weird phrases and a robotic structure. No personality. No style. Just formulaic words on a page that disengages readers ...

Every time I turn around, Jami Attenberg has published another novel or memoir. But I do not begrudge her this, because I know how she does it. For years, Jami has enlisted conspirators in writing a ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...