This is quite good. I’ll add to it that more than anything else, my writing skills were honed over nearly twenty years of student essays, from having the five paragraph style drilled into me in 1993 to finishing my dissertation in 2010. The mass revolt against developing this skill is devastating.
The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
