#WritingTheOtherResources Video: Who's Consuming Whom?

Award-winning authors and editors Aliette de Bodard, Amal El-Mohtar, and Michi Trota dig into the dynamics behind cultural appropriation in speculative fiction and publishing. In this discussion they touch on colonialism, consumption, and how it all relates to writing the "Other".

https://writingtheother.com/whos-consuming-whom-a-roundtable-discussion/?utm_source=wto&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=resources2023

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Sulu the book-reading black cat recommends: 'Writing and Publishing Short Stories: Professional Techniques for Fiction Authors.' 😍

https://mybook.to/Sho
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I started a blog on Wordpress to practice my writing skills in English, which are quite rusty. Let me know if you have any correction or suggestion to improve: https://thoughtsfromflores.wordpress.com/

#English #LanguageLearning #WritingSkills #Improvement

AI is trained to produce logical consistency, internal (paragraph) coherence, structurally sound. My pre-U students graduate from secondary school and then cannot tell me the purpose of paragraphing and topic sentences. They keep mentioning PEEL and but cannot explain why other than that's what they are taught as the formula.
I have students telling me that what AI lacks is "the human touch".

Well, does the "human touch" also include grammatical mistakes, inappropriate diction, inconsistent tenses? I doubt AI will complain at having to check grammar and spelling!

Let's not even get started on the usual proclamation that we need to teach critical thinking and not just regurgitation. (I am deliberately being provocative here.)

#ai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #writing #largelanguagemodels #criticalthinking #writingskills #education #languageliteracy #literacy #singapore #educationsystem #languageprocessing

https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/chatgpt-vs-human-professor-reporter-2100626

A special thanks to Dragon Tale Books in Menomonie for hosting and livestreaming my presentation "7 Minutes a Day to Your Bestseller." Just in case you missed it, here it is...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL6H7_kJuS7souTYmIAw6bbCONRuOKFiw
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...running before the storm, rain all around, peddling onward into deteriorating conditions and more heavy weather in the forecast. It was a fitting end to the year of living dangerously.
ok it was a quick 8 minute ride to the store to get milk and I did even get a drop of rain on me. I'm working on my creative non-fiction #writingSkills ; how am I doing:-)

“It’s funny, I teach writing, and before I taught I never would guessed the thing I say most often is: “Please stop thinking.” But people really write better without thinking, by which I mean without self-consciousness.”

https://gointothestory.blcklst.com/writing-and-the-creative-life-to-write-stop-thinking-ee45a9631a2

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#ChatGPT chatbot from #OpenAI stunned onlookers with its #writing ability, #proficiency at #complextasks, and #EaseOfUse. The system can identify incorrect premises and refuse to answer inappropriate requests. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/04/ai-bot-chatgpt-stuns-academics-with-essay-writing-skills-and-usability #artificialintelligence #AI #chatbot #generativeAI #artgenerators #Text #WritingSkills

Published today in EASE journal, European Science Editing, a viewpoint from Profs. Ana Marusic and Matko Marusic on the development of their author training programs to support not only inexperienced authors, but affect the research culture in the academic and research community.

Read it for free in ESE now!

https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2022.e95247

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