Writing using computers is a vital life skill. We are constantly texting, posting, blogging and emailing.

Singer and Ivory mis-spoke in their Nov. 4 article in the New York Times (front page, above the fold): "... there is little rigorous evidence so far to indicate that using computers in class improves ...

Usually, I write drafts on a computer because I type faster than I write, and because I can name the document, file it on my computer, and find it afterward. But in class, when I give a freewrite ...

New research has shown that writing by hand leads to higher brain connectivity than typing on a keyboard, highlighting the need to expose students to more handwriting activities As digital devices ...

Computer printouts are neat and easy to read. And for the writer at the keyboard, the original work probably was produced faster. But does that mean the pen is becoming mightier than the computer?

I wrote my first story in a university library, in Boston. It was 1978, and I was bored to death with structuralism and post-structuralism. I wrote with a cheap ballpoint pen in the exercise book that ...

Scientists have deciphered the brain signals associated with handwriting. This is an Inside Science story. A man paralyzed below the neck can imagine writing by hand and, with the help of artificial ...

What is the best way to get started in writing research papers? originally appeared on Quora - the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the ...

For the first time ever a team of researchers says it has deployed a brain-computer interface (or BCI) to decode the neural signals that represent the writing of letters and turn them into text. A ...