A Way with Words: Style in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
| AUTHOR | Marsh, John |
| PUBLISHER | University of Michigan Press ELT (01/27/2026) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
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A Way with Words helps readers learn the essentials of writing. Rather than lecturing about when to use who or whom, this book focuses on writing clear, concise, and lively prose: eliminating wordiness, using active verbs, avoiding run-on sentences. John Marsh applies his experience grading over 5,000 essays over a quarter century as a teacher to take readers through the issues he most commonly sees. While Marsh teaches in the humanities, the advice applies to writing regardless of discipline. Using examples from papers students might actually write, the book invites readers to apply what they have learned to quizzes that mix and match issues--vague pronouns, sentence fragments, punctuating quotations--from previous chapters. The book includes a thoughtful discussion about balancing the competing demands of writing well and fighting linguistic discrimination. Finally, A Way with Words prompts readers to consider what artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT and Bard will mean for student writing. It offers advice about how writers can distinguish their writing from the assembly-line writing that artificial intelligence tends to generate, and how they can develop their style to stand out to their teachers, employers, and clients.
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ISBN-13:
9780472040070
ISBN-10:
0472040073
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Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
166
Carton Quantity:
60
Weight:
1.00 pound(s)
Country of Origin:
US
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Foreign Language Study | English as a Second Language
Foreign Language Study | Reference
Foreign Language Study | Essays
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A Way with Words helps readers learn the essentials of writing. Rather than lecturing about when to use who or whom, this book focuses on writing clear, concise, and lively prose: eliminating wordiness, using active verbs, avoiding run-on sentences. John Marsh applies his experience grading over 5,000 essays over a quarter century as a teacher to take readers through the issues he most commonly sees. While Marsh teaches in the humanities, the advice applies to writing regardless of discipline. Using examples from papers students might actually write, the book invites readers to apply what they have learned to quizzes that mix and match issues--vague pronouns, sentence fragments, punctuating quotations--from previous chapters. The book includes a thoughtful discussion about balancing the competing demands of writing well and fighting linguistic discrimination. Finally, A Way with Words prompts readers to consider what artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT and Bard will mean for student writing. It offers advice about how writers can distinguish their writing from the assembly-line writing that artificial intelligence tends to generate, and how they can develop their style to stand out to their teachers, employers, and clients.
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Author:
Marsh, John
John Marsh is associate professor of English at Penn State University. He is the author of two previous books: Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way out of Inequality and Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry. Marsh is also the editor of You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-1941. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife and daughter.
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