There’s a science behind writing clearer sentences, Yellowlees Douglas writes. I vividly recall when an editor in chief invited me to publish in a well-known journal. Fresh from defending my ...

For instance, the mean score for honesty for an entirely robot-written abstract was 3.32, based on a five-point Likert scale (where 5 is the highest rating), but just 3.38 for a human-written one. For ...