Tips on How to Write Non-Fiction in the Age of AI
Many scientific books today are not written for the reader, but for the peruser. They are worthless literarily speaking and difficult to get through. Individual authors that bare the rare marks of quality lie neglected upon the same piles of books that university students skim through, rather than read through. The current fear in the humanities is that students are merely summarising books using AI when asked to talk about them at an exam or read them for a seminar. I don’t blame them. Many books make it onto the required reading list simply because the teacher needs them for their own research and has never gotten to reading them on their own time. I don’t blame them either. The curse of university reading lists is the low standard it sets. It leads to the students themselves churning out innumerable articles unmemorably written. How, then, can we allow this problem to go on, both for the sake of the student‘s self-esteem as well as for the teacher’s teaching purpose? This is my advi...