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How AI helps me learn, decide, and create

Assistant for Instructors in first-year college writing courses

Short Writing Exercises 1 & 2Short Writing Exercise 1: Group Presentations (43.75 Points)Due 09/22 & 09/24In groups, choose from the list below. Aim for groups of 3 (don’t exceed 4.) You can form a group, then negotiate texts to cover, or put just your name on the texts that most interest you,...

Jeanne Law, Writing at Kennesaw State University

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The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.

AI and College Writing: An Orientation for Students (Draft) by Anna Mills Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 license (CC BY NC 4.0) Contents Contents Request for comments Introduction Basics What is AI, and why are people talking about it so much? How do chatbots c...

Six core principles

John Warner shares about his latest book, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI on episode 564 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Like so many things in our world, our well-intentioned efforts to solve one problem usher in a legion of new challenges, and AI detection is no different.

Living most of my life with undiagnosed ADHD meant that writing always felt like having a brain racing at 100kph while the world expected me to crawl. It was a struggle to get across all the things I wanted to say while trying to express them through text.

A conversation with John Warner

Back in August, I had the opportunity to hear a short presentation from Heidi Nobles, assistant professor in writing and rhetoric and director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Virginia. The presentation was part of a two-day institute on teaching and generative AI, and Heidi leveraged her background as an editor to provide a different way of thinking about working with generative AI.Heidi pointed out that when we ask ChatGPT or some other AI chatbot to polish a draft essay, we’re asking for copyediting. That’s useful, yes, but there are other, earlier stages to an editing process. Might AI be useful during those other stages? Heidi argued for yes. A chatbot won’t be as good as a human editor, but most writers don’t have access to a human editor, so it’s worth exploring what AI can do.On today's podcast, Heidi Nobles talks about writing and teaching writing from an editor's perspective.Episode Resources·       Heidi Nobles faculty page, https://wac.virginia.edu/people/heidi-nobles ·       Edits on the Record, https://editsontherecord.com/ ·       Choose Your Own Adventure maps, https://www.cyoa.com/pages/choose-your-own-adventure-these-maps-reveal-the-hidden-structures-behind-the-books ·       One Book, Many Readings by Christian Swinehart, https://samizdat.co/cyoa/

Here's a less controversial use of AI writing feedback: as a supplement to help explain teacher feedback on grammar and word choice. I mark a few…

Jointly edit with ChatGPT and ask it to insert teacher comments and then revise based on those comments.

What that means for teaching writing this fall

This video is designed to accompany a tutorial on applying a syllabus policy to potential uses of generative AI in a college writing course. I will not tell ...

AI Text and Student Words: How Can We Best Distinguish? Anna Mills, College of Marin A presentation for Auburn University August 13, 2024 Licensed CC BY NC 4.0

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – AI offers some excellent opportunities to enhance instruction for English Language Learners. Other students?  Not so much. But …

Collecting up my recent writings on a complex topic.

How will people compose text moving forward, now that every author working with a digital word processor and internet access can use generative AI?

The professors call their approach “restrained generative AI,” and they’ve already built a prototype software tool that is being piloted in 10 courses at the university this semester.

Back in December, I showed ChatGPT to a friend of mine who is also a professor. "I'm not worried about AI in my humanities courses," she said. "Not at all?" She shook her head. "I know of colleagues