1. How can a tiny grammatical choice change the persuasive force of an opinion?

2. Why does present tense make a speaker sound more confident, and why does that confidence matter for persuasion?

3. What does verb tense reveal about the difference between sharing an experience and making a claim?

• What are keywords, and why do they matter?

• In what ways are keywords connected to inclusive/hospitality language?

• Where do keywords get their complex meanings from?

• How can we tell whether a sentence was written by AI or a person?

• Does it matter whether an email was written from a unique, creative human brain, or simple formed by data scraped off the web?

• How can we understand our creative ability to write and speak as being separate from what a machine can do? 

• What is Gender-Neutral Language?

• How does the historical usage of Singular They impact our understanding of its usage today?

• What does language change tell us about society?

• What is Standard Male Conversational Style, and how did it become the standard for workplace communication?

• Are there any disadvantages to adopting Standard Male Conversational Style?

• What can gendered language teach us about the need to balance IDENTITY and AGENCY in the workplace?

• Can speech patterns gendered? If so, why and how?

• Are there statistically significant differences between the way that men and women speak? Or is it our own flawed perception that men and women talk differently?

• If these differences are “real”, how is being aware of gendered speech patterns beneficial to us as workers?