First-year students need to adapt their writing style when transitioning to university. Here’s how educators can support freshmen to develop flexible, analytical and evidence-based writing ...

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Stereotypical academic writing is rigid, dry, and mechanical, delivering prose that evokes memories of high school and undergraduate laboratory reports. The hallmark of this stereotype is passive ...

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The chatbot ChatGPT and other tools based on large language models (LLMs) can make scientific research more efficient, but they can also introduce mistakes when they describe scientific work (Nature ...