Writing Gives Everyone a Voice. Why Voluntarily Silence It?

Writing Gives Everyone a Voice. Why Voluntarily Silence It?

The idea that writing isn’t important is deeply dangerous, and not (only) because writing is thinking. A few months after Harvard closed its Writing Center, a Williams College faculty member wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times asserting that writing is not the best form of thinking; talking is—and this is why he allows his students to use AI on their papers, as long as they can defend them live later.