Naomi S. Baron is a professor emerita of linguistics at American University and author of Who Wrote This? How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing, published this fall by Stanford University Press.
Stories by This Author
Advice
We must embrace attention to writing in all fields and at all levels, not just in first-year composition courses.
The Chronicle Review
Too long; didn’t read. If you have the attention span, find out what this mind-set’s doing to the academy.
Commentary
Screens, particularly those on devices with Internet connections, undermine our encounters with meaty texts.