I’ve long told my students that daily writing fuels momentum and new ideas, minimizing writers’ block. Long breaks mean it will be harder to rebound, like sore muscles after an absence from the gym. So it follows that my guitar finger exercises, warm-ups, strumming patterns—all have to...
The idea that AI bots can function as a ITS is expressed in the answer given by ChatGPT (OpenAI, 2023) when prompted about the benefits of its usage in education, as transcribed in the first two paragraphs below. ‘Personalized Learning: ChatGPT can provide personalized learning experiences fo...
The next rung means looking at words as words and sentences as sentences. One of my favorite Dinty exercises: Circle every adjective and adverb in three pages of your manuscript. Challenge yourself toreplace them with specific, concrete details—nouns and verbs—that show rather than tell. Instea...
As a result, we are raising a generation of writers who will never start writing, artists who will never start doodling, chefs who will never make a mess of the kitchen, athletes who will never kick a ball against a wall, musicians who will never pick up their aunt’s guitar and start...
Granularity of coding involves breaking down the transcripts into smaller units, such as sentences or paragraphs. Each unit was assigned an initial code reflecting its core meaning (see Table1). Descriptive codes were used to capture the explicit content of the participants’ responses. For example...
For example, for improvement, it might offer to reword a sentence or to suggest transitions between the paragraphs. Writing Prompts: Students are offered writing prompts to help them overcome the blockers and come up with new and better ideas! It generates ideas based on the given topic or...
Forsthoefel refers frequently, perhaps too often, to his two muses, Walt Whitman and Rainer Maria Rilke, quoting lines fromLeaves of Grassand excerpting long paragraphs fromLetters to a Young Poet, two books he carried on his walk. But even his frequent citations only underscore the young au...
That’s part of the reason I’ve been going back over my early books to see where I can un-torture certain phrases and paragraphs — because honestly I can’t deny that sometimes my sentence structure and concepts get a bit over-complicated and knotty. I’ve had a lot of success ...
The main themes can be divided into two categories, namely themes involving rehabilitation processes and themes involving organizational aspects. The subdivision of the themes within the two categories is described in Table 2 and Table 3. The two categories are described in the following paragraphs. ...
” She has a couple paragraphs of nostalgia, followed by a concluding remark that if Hotmail is the “worst” email to have, a personal vanity domain is the best, backed up by a single anecdotal experience she had. In my opinion (ironically), any editor worth their salt would have ...