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Should We Kill the Essay?

Estimated Completion Time: 15 minutes

Jodie’s Recommendation

Rather than romanticizing the essay, Luke Zaphir candidly addresses some of the longstanding pedagogical problems with the genre, encouraging instructors to think more deeply about how to assess student learning.

Generative AI may not end up killing the essay, but it has dealt it a body blow. We have a moment here to consider how best to help it recover – or if we want it to recover at all.