Write, Think, Learn: How to Sharpen Your Intelligence

by Michael A. Covington

How can you make yourself smarter? Distilled from the author’s career as a teacher, writer, and research scientist, this book reveals some key habits and skills of intelligent to write more clearly, important because writing is where we marshal our thoughtsHow to say things so others will understand them – and so you understand them yourselfPitfalls to avoid so language doesn’t play tricks on youHow to spot fallacies of logic – not a dry traditional list, but the fallacies that actually come up in conversation, debate, and the media todayHow to understand information expressed as numbers, including statisticsHow to learn different subjects efficiently, with appropriate strategies for eachThis is more than a writing guide, but not less; an appendix contains a quick reference guide to English grammar and usage, pitched to the needs of educated people.

86 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 10, 2025

About the author

Michael Covington is Associate Director of the Artificial Intelligence Center.