Opinion writing is famous for a host of microlabels — columns, editorials, op-eds, guest essays, letters to the editor and even cartoons. While each of these pieces serves a distinct purpose, their ...

This is a night in the life of one Brown Daily Herald opinion columnist. I’ve gone through this process 30 times (though I ...

Last fall I delivered a keynote address at a one-day conference about teaching writing in the age of AI at Iona University. As part of the conference, there were also additional talks by Iona faculty ...

I started writing a news column for The Palm Beach Post in December of 1991, providing daily commentary about the WIlliam Kennedy Smith trial in West Palm Beach. The first day I did a poor Jimmy ...

In a large room with nothing but a small, dark-stained wooden desk and fabric-covered swivel chair, I sat buried under legal documents. In desperation for the preservation of inner peace, I took a ...

It seems like every first-year has a story to offer about the ubiquitous stress and exhaustion of Princeton’s Writing Seminars. My peers often mention pulling all-nighters to finish their Writing ...

Twenty years! I’ve been writing this column for 20 years. As I said back on the 15th anniversary, “except for teaching, that’s the longest time I’ve ever devoted to a single activity.” And I’ve ...

I will never forget the student who—upon being given 15 minutes at the end of class to get rolling on the writing assignment I’d just given—whipped out their phone and starting furiously typing away.

I admire columnists. Always have, really, since the time I sent Woody Paige a snarky response to a Denver Post column bashing the Jacksonville Jaguars. (I was 15 and didn’t yet know the term snarky, ...

SARANAC LAKE — Adirondack Daily Enterprise Columnist Bob Seidenstein has won the 2021 New York News Publishers Association award for Distinguished Column Writing. Seidenstein’s column, The Inseide ...

AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the trade-off may be more profound than ...

I actually don’t want to make my work easier. We should demand authenticity if we care about the sort of society that comes out the other end of this so-called revolution ...