Northwestern Engineering’s Barry Nelson has won the 2024 Saul Gass Expository Writing Award, given by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Nelson, Walter P.

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Three pairs of writers revised two 400- word passages from a high school history text in an effort to make the passages more comprehensible and more memorable. Two of the writers were text linguists, ...

Ms. O’Rourke is the executive editor of The Yale Review and a professor of creative writing at Yale University. July 18, 2025 When I first told ChatGPT who I was, it sent a gushing reply: “Oh wow — it ...