Photo by NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images On writing, author David Sedaris once said, “You need to do the best that you can do, and then you need to take the best that you can do and ...

In fall of 2024, I led a workshop for postdocs on how to engage undergraduates in the face of so much competition for their attention. Afterward, when we met for lunch, the postdocs quickly turned the ...

When I joined The Next Web full-time nearly six months ago, I was looking for ways to streamline my workflow — writing up articles, in particular. I tried out a ton of Windows apps to help me compose ...

In May, I was confronted with a robot version of my writer self. It was made, at my request, by a Silicon Valley startup called Writer, which specializes in building artificial-intelligence tools that ...

I'm pretty bad at being an employee. I openly despise meetings, I say exactly what's on my mind, and I sincerely believe that many managers exist only to waste the time of otherwise productive people.

Leslie Leonard is a Ph.D. candidate in American literature and American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. You can follow her on twitter @lesliemleo. “Gradhacker” has hosted at ...

This year I tried a new writing practice in my 8th grade English class, and it led me to an important realization about writing development. Like many great classroom moments, this one happened by ...