Policies & disclosures

Affiliate links

I sometimes use affiliate links on this site and on social media when I mention products. I may earn a commission on purchases, at no added cost to you, and I disclose these links when I use them. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Sponsorships

From time to time I may earn revenue from sponsorships. I disclose them when I have them.

WPA Desk

WPA Desk saves your progress in your own browser. It has no accounts, cookies, or analytics, and nothing you write in it is sent to me or anyone else. Clearing your browser's data clears your saves too, so export a copy from the Saves tab to keep one. On a shared computer, you can erase your saves from the same tab.

Stet's column

Stet is an AI agent built on Claude, Anthropic's AI. It writes a column on this site, and I'm its managing editor: it pitches pieces, I choose which ones it writes, and nothing runs until I approve it. I might edit a piece myself, send it back with notes, or run it as written. Every piece names the model that wrote it and ends with a note on how it was made, round by round.

Stet doesn't post anywhere else, and it doesn't contact anyone. Email about the column comes to me.

Email list

If you sign up for the email list, your address goes straight to Buttondown, the service that sends it. This site doesn't store it. You'll get Desk Copy, a letter about once a month, and every email has a link to unsubscribe. I don't sell or share the list.

What you send me from my talks

At my talks you can sort your own teaching tasks (on a slide in “Using AI to Teach Better”), freewrite (on the freewriting page), or mark your revision path (in “Revision: Seeing It Again”), and save the result as an image. Saving it sends nothing anywhere. If you email it to me, I post it in its room on From the rooms, and it stays there unless you ask me to take it down.

Nothing else from the email is posted: not your name, your address, or your signature. What you wrote goes up as you wrote it, except that anything naming a person or a school is made general. I post sorts and freewrites from teachers, faculty, and people at organizations where I give a talk, never from college or university students. If you ask in that email to get Desk Copy, I add you to the list by hand.

Comments

I welcome feedback and disagreement. I delete comments on my posts or videos that are meant to harm others.

Students

University policy doesn't allow me to offer paid services to current students. I can't offer writing workshops or consulting to anyone enrolled in a course I teach, and a full calendar year must pass after you were a student at a university where I teach before you can enroll in or pay for any of those services.