In an ever more digital world, pen and paper are increasingly getting replaced with screens and keyboards in classrooms. Now, a new study has investigated neural networks in the brain during hand- and ...

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We want to hear from high school teachers and college professors who assign writing. By Dana Goldstein For decades, American students have struggled to produce one dominant form of academic writing: a ...

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 ...

Communicating the worth of your work to the academic world – and beyond – starts with writing. Writing for a journal, turning your work into a book or reviewing existing research all require distinct ...

The process of writing forces the writer to be present, which is uncomfortable; writing is one of the most cognitively taxing activities. It exercises all aspects of working memory – the facility to ...

Andrew Robinson is the author of Lost Languages (2002) and other books on scripts and decipherment. He is based in London. How the world’s largest language family spread — and why others go extinct ...

Where someone with years of hard-won personal experience, and lots of trial and error, shares everything they’ve learned. Read more here. I’m not anti-tech per se, but there are certain modern ...

January is traditionally a month for starting projects, trying new things, and working to break bad habits — particularly anything that gets in the way of self-improvement or productivity. Polygon ...

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.