You need social skills to have a conversation in real life -- but they're quite different from the skills you need to write good dialogue. Educator Nadia Kalman suggests a few "anti-social skills," like eavesdropping and muttering to yourself, that can help you write an effective dialogue for your next story. [Directed by Joyce Stenneke, narrate...
Childhood is surreal. Why shouldn't children's books be? In this whimsical talk, award-winning author Mac Barnett speaks about writing that escapes the page, art as a doorway to wonder -- and what real kids say to a fictional whale.
This talk paints the funny and touching story of a little boy who pursued a simple passion: to draw and write stories. With the help of a supporting cast of family and teachers, Jarrett J. Krosoczka tells how he grew up to create beloved children's books.
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Danny Pellegrino's '90s-Filled Essay Collection Is Target's June Book Club Pick "I am so proud of how the book turned out,” the author and podcaster says ...
By Joani LaMachia Joani LaMachia submitted this essay in response to the writing prompt “What I didn’t realize about the ...
Sometimes called the conscience of a generation, Orwell is best known for two novels: Animal Farm and 1984. Both books, published toward the end of Orwell’s life, are often assigned to middle and high ...
Trying to pick an essay writing service feels like scrolling through food delivery apps for 45 minutes, only to microwave leftovers. The options are endless, and most look the same. […]
Anthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic – love – and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance. She closes with a warning about the potential disaster inherent in antidepressant abuse.
In the 4th century BCE, a young Diogenes of Sinope was found to be counterfeiting coins. He was stripped of his citizenship, his money, all his possessions and sent into exile. He decided he would live self-sufficiently, close to nature, without materialism, vanity, or conformity and only then could he be truly free. William D. Desmond details h...
Inventor Dean Kamen lays out his argument for the Segway and offers a peek into his next big ideas (portable energy and water purification for developing countries).
In 2007, Paul Rothemund gave TED a short summary of his specialty, DNA folding. Now he lays out in clear, abundant detail the immense promise of this field -- to create tiny machines that assemble themselves.
Disney and Universal might be rivals at the box office, but the companies are united when it comes to protecting their work from AI — they...
(WRGB) — As AI-powered tools like ChatGPT become increasingly common in classrooms, educators are facing a new challenge: ensuring students submit their own ori
The Clash: AI-Generated Content vs. Plagiarism Checkers Now that you know what each side brings to the table, let's talk about what happens when AI-generated content meets plagiarism checkers.
Gone already are the days when using AI to write an essay meant copying and pasting its response verbatim. To evade ...
If a plagiarism war is truly afoot, it is certainly a political effort, but also a technological one. In order to conduct plagiarism reviews against entire universities and newsrooms, one needs a ...
Copyleaks AI content detector is another capable ChatGPT plagiarism checker tool. It shows identical content, sentences with identical changes, paraphrased paragraphs, and omitted words.
Concerns clustered around three main issues: the potential for plagiarism and other breaches of academic integrity; ...
No one was more surprised than poet Maggie Smith that writing herself a daily pep talk during the unraveling of her marriage actually helped her feel better. Now, Smith’s “Keep Moving: The Journal” inspires those who are struggling to write through their own challenges.
Once known for spotting A.I.-written work, GPTZero now offers tools to boost clarity, check citations, and support responsible A.I. use.