Jiang says Talese turns notebooks and archival boxes of lived memories into literature, citing The Kingdom of Power, Honor Thy Father, and Frank Sinatra Has a Cold as examples of that craft.
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Jiang is preparing to teach writing through evidence-based reasoning: students will research, interview, survey, collect information, and turn it into coherent essays.
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"...And he uses his boxes in order to create articles and essays and books. Okay? So he takes memories of life, real memories of..."
"...collect information, and then turn that into a coherent and compelling essay. So I've never taught this course before, but I'm really looking forward..."
"college so we have to write a lot of essays about these contradictions uh addictions in the bible"
"...the images. Okay? ChatGPT. Why is ChatGPT so good at writing essays? Because they got humans to write the essays as models. Okay? Do..."
"...act out certain scenes in the book, to write literary analysis essays. And only in two weeks, we've seen students, their minds just blossom..."
"...write their recommendation letters. I just didn't want to write their essays. I want to actually educate them. So I started to teach them..."
"...opened up the entire world to me. Wow. Talk about the essay that you wrote. When I was a high school student, I went..."
"...They're, you know, people aren't encouraged to read, like, you know, essays or excerpts, but not actual books. So it's really, really important to..."
"...what I love, which is being with my children, teaching, writing essays, and I mean, that's why we're here. So as long as you..."
"...and universes. That's how we create novels. That's how you write essays."
"...to like cheat in school, right. To get to write their essays. It's unclear how this will be beneficial to the economy. And if..."
"...And you would think that with ChatGPT, they could write better essays because ChatGPT will provide the structure. They have instant access to all..."
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