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A Way with Words: Style in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

A Way with Words: Style in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Marsh, John

Paperback

English as a Second LanguageGeneral Education

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 27, 2026

ISBN10: 0472040073
ISBN13: 9780472040070
Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
Published: Jan 27 2026
Pages: 166
Weight: 1.00
Language: English
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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