Since the advent of computer software capable of writing essays, I have noticed a sharp uptick in the technical quality of my students’ written work. For a long time, responding to such work involved ...

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I asked OpenAI's ChatGPT to write some college admissions essays and sent them to experts to review. Both of the experts said the essays seemed like they had been written by a real student. However, ...

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For the first time, there is a resource to help ordinary LDS members understand the Gospel Topics essays—what they say (which is often a leap forward in the church’s transparency about its history) ...

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From the personal to the political and everything in between, it has been a year of powerful essays by women. Is it all a process of ‘radical re-definition’, writes Cameron Laux. In the past few years ...