Structural Issues and Academic Work
Here in Canada, May Day is a relatively neglectezd holiday because the labour movement is in a historic rut. But we think it’s important to recognize its contribution to improving […]
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Attention, Writing, and Editing (Part 2): Nudging Attention into the Right Shape
We’ve been thinking about attention, writing, and editing for quite a while now, either explicitly, or implicitly in a few places. Understandably, we’ve been pretty writing-focused. Today we’re going to […]
How to Write Better with LLMs
Despite the prevalence of hype, large language models (LLMs) are genuinely impressive. They performa as well as humans for some genres of writing. Given enough context and well-conceived prompting, they […]
The ABD Morass, Academic Coaching, and Developmental Editing
We started this business because during grad school we got an unusually close look at the struggles of hundreds of grad students at Canada’s largest university. We chose to specialize […]
Announcing ClarityGPT: Fully Automated Full-Stack Academic Editing and Coaching
We’re thrilled and proud to announce that today we are launching ClarityGPT (cGPT), a large language model that automates what we do as editors and academic coaches at all levels. […]
Writerly Akrasia
We have written about writers’ difficulties in quite a few places because our clients often face these challenges. This is an enormous topic, spanning culture, psychology, theories of education, social […]
How to Keep Trying in the Stuck Places
Writing is hard. Learning to write is hard, and the more we learn the more sensitive we get to ways we could improve. Learning and growing is magical and wonderful, […]
Artificial Intelligence, Writing, and Editing (Part 6): Mediocre Computing and Excellent Writing
The discourse around large language models (LLMs) continues to pick up steam, and shows no signs of slowing down. Just this week, we have the launch of GPT-4, which will […]
Attention, Writing, and Editing
Following from last week’s post on deep work, we’ve been thinking a bit more about attention. Skill in writing is, among other things, skill with subtleties of attention. So let’s […]
Deep Work in Writing, Editing, and Coaching
We’re always reflecting on how our editing and academic coaching adds value to the world. We think a big piece of it has to do with helping people find deep […]