Can AI teach kids how to write? Chang-Yen Liao argues that when children write daily diaries with the support of AI companions, they get an audience and writing partner. www.jowr.org/jowr/article...

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Are editors obsolete? Daniël Janssen, Henri Raven, Lisanne Van Weelden and Yohannes Den Hertog compare texts revised by ChatGPT and professional editors. Their findings? Professional editors for complex adjustments and radical rewrites, AI for surface level improvements. www.jowr.org/jowr/article...

🚨Just dropped: introduction to our Special Issue, by guest editors Chris Anson and Kirsti Cole. ✅importance of empirical evidence in gen AI and writing ✅methodological pluralism ✅wider, practical implications of the research www.jowr.org/jowr/article...

If you use ChatGPT to brainstorm, does it improve the persuasiveness of your writing? Almumen and Jouhar say yes! Students improved the rhetorical components of their writing and maintained them over time, with lesser improvements in other aspects. Find out how and why. www.jowr.org/jowr/article...

Martínez-Cano et al identified narrative characteristics in writing by people with schizophrenia to determine how these relate to positive and negative symptomatology. Results reveal that language difficulties occur in writing and allow for symptom differentiation. www.jowr.org/jowr/article...

𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒚𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑺𝑼𝑨𝑫𝑬 𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒖𝒔- Morris, Crossley, Holmes, and Choi. This article explores how high-quality persuasive essays differ in the linguistic features used, challenging the assumption that excellent writing is a single, uniform style. (vol. 17, no. 2)

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