I recently learned that according to a group of education experts, the most impactful writing assignment of my life would not be rated as “high quality.” This was third grade, when our teacher, Mrs.

Write! has its limitations, but its ability to save all versions for infinite undo/redo, and its ability to take you exactly to where you left off in a document, are conveniences no other competitor ...

I’ve long been a fan of plain text for everything from notes to general writing, but it wasn’t until recently that I found my holy grail: An app that could sync with multiple devices and handle ...

Today, Canva announces Magic Write, a text-generation tool that can generate everything from ideas for blog posts to a cover letter. But AI text is quietly — and probably inevitably — moving into more ...

In May, I was confronted with a robot version of my writer self. It was made, at my request, by a Silicon Valley startup called Writer, which specializes in building artificial-intelligence tools that ...

In one sense, the national conversation about what it will take to make sure all children become strong readers has been wildly successful: States are passing legislation supporting evidence-based ...

My handwriting looks like a doctor's prescription. But OneNote's hidden handwriting conversion feature rescues my notes. It converts even my worst scrawls into perfectly readable text, whether I'm ...

It's easy to want it all from your word processor. To want encouragement and spell-checking, Comic Sans and Times New Roman and Adobe Garamond Pro. To want the blank page to feel like a window into ...