If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

U ndergraduate writing programs introduce college students to the rhetorical and argumentative structures they will be expected to master during their four years on campus and beyond. Learning the ...

Christopher Merrill, longtime director of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (IWP), is marking 25 years as director and has announced he will step down at the end of the year.

Just about every laptop, desktop, and smartphone in your life can tell you the date, time, and current weather predictions. However, sometimes it’s nice to have simple data displayed on a bespoke ...

The US government shutdown will have serious implications for the collection and distribution of federal economic data used to gauge the health of the US economy — including the Bureau of Labor ...

Most Amazon Kindle devices are designed first and foremost for reading. But the Kindle Scribe line of products are made for writing as well as reading, so they have bigger screens, digital pen support ...

A deluge of data-breach lawsuits has a growing number of U.S. judges insisting victims show exactly how their leaked personal data caused “tangible harm,” a high bar that is getting more cases tossed ...

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...

Starting in autumn quarter 2025, the University will begin a multi-year restructuring of the undergraduate writing program, which had previously run concurrently with the humanities Core sequence.

Nearly a year after the University announced it was phasing out all 23 of the creative writing lecturers over the course of the next two years, the first set of lecturers have said their goodbyes to ...

AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot are already rewriting your professional reputation — here’s how to take control of your “AI Résumé” before it costs you opportunities. Microsoft Copilot is quietly ...

Applications for the Fall 2025 Writing Mentor Program are now available. Click here for the application. Deadline to apply is Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 12pm. Have you ever wanted a personal ...