personas

Creating personas

September 02, 2023 in Website writing

I asked Claude.AI to create some personas for my writing about different forms of writing. What was the result?

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Review: The Bright Side: Why Optimists Have the Power to Change the World

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I wrote this review wearing my school teacher hat. However, it struck me that optimism is something all writers need a great deal of!

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Review: Small Habits Create Big Change

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I wrote the review wearing my school teacher hat. However, it struck me that the “small habits” approach to writing is something useful to consider.

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Should writing tutors embrace "produictive failure"?

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My review of this for Teach Secondary magazine has just come out. Here is the published version, followed by the copy I submitted, which is slightly longer because it has a little more detail. I wrote the review wearing my school teacher hat. However, it struck me that the “productive failure” approach to teaching is something I’ve done, to some extent, in my creative writing classes.

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Is Artificial Intelligence actually any good?

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I’ve reviewed this book for Teach Secondary magazine. Although my review is written from the standpoint of the question, “how useful is AI in schools?”, I do thiink it has relevance here because many writers, and writers’ organisations, are also scrutinising AI.

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Nonfiction notebook: 6 types of book review

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I love books, and I love reviewing them. However, I’ve decided that a one-size fits all approach to reviewing books (or anything else, come to that), just won’t do. So I’ve categorised my reviews into 6 types.

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Review: The Newsmongers -- two reviews in one!

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was intrigued to discover that a popular news magazine of the sixties had been anticipated by Defoe.

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Review: The Shortest History of Music

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The Music Programme of Study requires students to have an understanding of the music that they perform and to which they listen, and its history, and an appreciation of different musical styles.

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Review: How to think like a poet (two reviews in one!)

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In all, twenty three poets are considered, and they constitute a wide variety: alongside the usual ones like Milton and Chaucer, we find Sappho and Basho. Each chapter is a mixture of biography and quotations.

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