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At CGD we regularly invite others to collaborate and co-write blogs with us. Everyone has a different style and approach to writing blogs, but here are some insights from experience with writing blogs aimed at policy influence.

ChatGPT begins the dark dawn of writing with serious ethical and intellectual consequences in the days ahead.

A roundup of news from the local colleges and universities.

Labor-based grading is an approach pioneered by rhetoric and composition professor Asao Inoue to be fairer for all and separate learning from assessment

Criseyde S. Jones (Cris), a West Tisbury resident for six decades, died on March 16, 2022, at Fall River HealthCare. She was 89.  Born on Jan. 3, 1933, in El Dorado, Ark., Cris came by her Chaucerian first name honestly: Her father, Weldon Stone, was a Texas-born playwright and English teacher, and her mother, Louisiana-born […]

Talking through the process of freewriting, which can help cure writer's block in university students

Is 'curiosity' king?

External motivations like grades squash internal ones like curiosity and interest, the mindsets that motivate learning, write Marisa Milanese and Gwen Kordonowy.

Helen Betya Rubinstein on Expectation, Eagerness, and Enjoyment February 17, 2021 There’s something sexy about narrative structure. We’ve known this since before Robert Scholes wrote in 1979 that “The archetype of all fiction is the sexual act”—“the fundamental orgastic rhythm of tumescence and detumescence, of tension and resolution, of intensification to the point of climax and consummation.” We’ve known it since before 1863, when Freytag drew his triangle—since Aristotle�...