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ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving

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It’s not every week that someone with my particular employment profile and expertise has something they’re knowledgable about become a hot topic of national discussion, but the release of OpenAI’s, ChatGPT interface generated a sudden flurry of discussion about how we teach students to write in school, which is something I know a lot about. I’m never sure how much overlap there is for the various audiences that consist of the John Warner Writer Experience Universe, but while to folks here I am, “The Biblioracle,” book recommender par excellence, to a whole other group I am the author of Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities, and The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing, and a blogger about education issues at Inside Higher Ed. Modesty aside, and somewhat to my surprise, I have become an expert in how we teach writing. That expertise was birthed from the frustration I experienced in trying to teach writing to first-year

ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving If an algorithm is the death of high school English, maybe that's an okay thing. John Warner Dec 11, 2022 125 42 12 Share (Edit from 2/10/25: The post below is the first thing I wrote following the appearance of ChatGPT. A little over two years later I’ve compiled these and other sentiments into a book that is my attempt to describe and argue for what’s worth preserving. If the sentiments below are of interest to you, please consider checking out, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. — It’s not every week that someone with m

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