In my humanities-dominated circles, I risk being labeled a heretic by admitting that I think AI prose can be quite skillful, often better than what most college students are capable of.

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Provides a basic skills course designed to equip students to handle the English major. Emphasizes critical writing and the acquisition of basic techniques and vocabulary of literary criticism through ...

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The scene: a graduate seminar in literature sometime in the eerily becalmed days of the mid-1990s, when for an aspirant to an academic job, the future seemed poised to break in one of two ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/style.53.2.0257 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.53.2.0257 Copy URL JIE ZHANG is Associate Professor of English at Anhui Normal ...