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Opinion | the Seductions of A.I. For the Writer’s Mind - The New York Times

For a manifesto, that’s well above the acceptable limit in concept nouns, generalized ideas and passive verbs, and someone told Hayden it wouldn’t do. Rewriting it on the spot, he got personal and specific and created a classic: We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to

William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All

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Julie Dirksen • Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter)

But what we consume does, truly, matter. It’s essential to appeal to the people in our lives, and remind them of the importance of seeking out imaginative work that might stoke the fires of their own creativity.

Because we aren’t just talking about entertainment here, or distraction, or leisure. We’re talking about the narratives that comprise the... See more

The Hollywood Originality Edition

n his 1974 book Television: Technology and Cultural Form , Raymond Williams wrote that “in all communications systems before [television], the essential items were discrete.” That is, a book is bound and finite, existing on its own terms. A play is performed in a particular theater at a set hour. Williams argued that television shifted culture from... See more

Everything Is Television

When we think about engaging the passion of the learner, we need to think about her sense of indwelling, because that is her greatest source of inspiration, but it is also the largest reservoir she has of tacit knowledge.

Douglas Thomas • A New Culture of Learning

After I had read various good and bad examples, the principals began to hear the difference between their true selves and their educator selves. The problem was how to close the gap. I recited my four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity. I explained about using active verbs and avoiding “concept nouns.” I told them not to