Find out what we use, support, meet and create.
Who we are
McIntoshLinguistics is an organization that houses a unique educational and grammatical editing model that we use to support educational processes and meet traditional publishing standards. Through linguistics studies, we create unique processes and methods. It is also a pedagogical model that is intended to be a purposive copy-editing system. This model underlies our information architecture, which is for writing, an editing system, and publishing solutions.
What we do
We use our educational and grammatical editing model to support educational processes and meet traditional publishing standards. The model necessitates that we create unique processes and methods through grammatical and linguistic studies.
Why we do what we do
To create educational content
Educational content and resources are available from several reputable sources. However, there is a cost to access these platforms. The following are some examples:
The New York Times administers The Learning Network Articles for licensing and content for education and resources for English learning. Their platform is “based on Times journalism” and geared towards English teaching and learning.
The Economist offers an online short course called “Professional Communication: Business Writing and Storytelling.”
A leading provider of digital education, the brand 2U offers online short courses.
Another resource called “Word Choices: A New Video Series from Merriam-Webster” advertises that “celebrated writers share their quest to find the right words.” As a strategy for education, we’ve added to this offering by compiling our own categorized list of websites.
To balance artificial intelligence (AI)
On the subject of AI, this BBC Future article offers valuable insights about the behaviour of writers and/or editors who use generative AI to perfect their works. A clear picture emerges about what these users are potentially forfeiting or compromising when a balance is not maintained between artificial intelligence and an emphasis on the learning education that results from problem-based learning.
With generative AI becoming “subtle arbiters of language” and language models “being trained on decades of increasingly homogenized content,” it “cannot be entirely relied upon to produce accurate prose every time.”
Notwithstanding, eWeek.com compiled a list of “the 10 best AI writing tools for 2023, claiming, “AI writing tools are becoming increasingly popular for businesses and individuals alike.”
However, the following two articles highlight some of the shortcomings and/or the inferiority in some respects of generative AI:
- Margaret Atwood Reviews a “Margaret Atwood” Story by AI | The Walrus
- ChatGPT Is Dumber Than You Think - The Atlantic
What we offer
Innovative connections
The innovative connections that the organization provides are elaborated from trying to solve a problem in a unique way. The problem was that independent writers/editors did not have all the necessary tools to achieve traditional publishing standards independently. The solution is McIntoshLinguistics.
That outcome serves as a principle, wherein we apply the following learning principle: “Work the solution out rather than find instant answers.”
That principle is reflected in the fact that we strive to create processes and methods through grammatical and linguistic studies.
Academic tools
We utilize the innovative tools of Office 365, which includes Word, Teams, Planner, Lists and SharePoint, to name a few, to develop a learning environment that focuses on pedagogy and support educational processes.
Information architecture
How we make the offer
Microsoft Education (EDU)
We are proud to join the ranks of students and faculty of accredited academic institutions that have also been granted a Microsoft Qualified Educational User designation. Through this licenced-based subscription technology platform, McIntoshLinguistics offers users a secure experience designed for accessing our content library.
The McIntoshLinguistics organization on the Microsoft platform
But more importantly, we leverage the innovative academic tools available to use through the mandate of Microsoft EDU, which is to accelerate opportunities for learners, create successful hybrid learning environments and improve student outcomes.
Stakeholder relationship: McIntoshLinguistics and Microsoft EDU
McIntoshLinguistics is proud to join the ranks of students and faculty of accredited academic institutions that have also been granted an EDU subscription. Through this subscription technology platform, which accelerates opportunities for learners, we offer users a secure experience designed for accessing our content library.
Also, the organization operates on the Microsoft Azure platform, so we want to leverage the innovative academic tools available through Microsoft EDU with their mandate. That is to create successful hybrid learning environments and improve student outcomes.
Partnering initiative: the McIntoshLinguistics organization on the Microsoft platform
We would like to offer students access to Microsoft’s academic tools, courtesy of our designation through Microsoft EDU as an “educational institution.” This designation has allowed us to acquire Office 365 A1 licences for free for students and faculty.
