What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Pocket Instructor: Writing’

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Updated 11 June 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Pocket Instructor: Writing’

Edited by Amanda Irwin Wilkins and Keith Shaw

“The Pocket Instructor: Writing” offers 50 practical exercises for teaching students the core elements of successful academic writing.

The exercises— created by faculty from a broad range of disciplines and institutions—are organized along the arc of a writing project, from brainstorming and asking analytical questions to drafting, revising, and sharing work with audiences outside traditional academia.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘An Introduction to String Algorithms’ by Carl Kingsford

Updated 25 January 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘An Introduction to String Algorithms’ by Carl Kingsford

String algorithms make it possible to process, store, and manipulate text with computational efficiency, with applications ranging from search engines and social networks that regularly process terabytes of information to areas like genomics, where the genome of an organism can be encoded as a long string of letters.

This book provides an incisive introduction to the concepts and applications that every practitioner in the field needs to know.

It guides readers from the fundamentals of string processing to advanced computational methods.