By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026My job - the job of *any* writing teacher - is to try and understand the *student's* writing style and artistic intent, and to provide advice for developing that style to express that intent. 45/ 1505
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026What Grammarly is offering isn't writing advice, it's *stylometry*, a computational linguistics technique for evaluating the likelihood that two candidate texts were written by the same person. 46/ 1432
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/03/2026Stylometry is a very cool discipline (as is adversarial stylometry, a set of techniques to obscure the authorship of a text): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylome... But *stylometry has nothing to do with teaching someone how to write*. 47/en.wikipedia.orgStylometry - Wikipedia 1411
