But slow writing need not be the norm. In journalism and all public writing, the goal should be fast writing — or at least faster writing. I’m a pretty fast writer, but not the fastest.

The professors call their approach “restrained generative AI,” and they’ve already built a prototype software tool that is being piloted in 10 courses at the university this semester.

As politics editor Rick Rouan explained on the podcast: “Some recent research suggests that cursive handwriting forces kids to just slow down, think about word spelling and sentence structure ...