AI’s recent prominence is due to the arrival of writing (or “chat”). It’s disruptions are likewise most prominent in the teaching of writing. To respond, instructors need to return to and recalibrate existing practices of active learning and authentic assessment, while considering new technological environments and media.
Writing Pedagogy Resources
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Designing Writing Assignments in the Era of AI
David Morse, Writing Program Director | Jackson School of Global Affairs
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Generative Artificial Intelligence and Writing Assignments
Harvard | The David Bok Center for Teaching & Learning
More Best Practices in AI Pedagogy
- Designing Courses & Assignments in the Age of AI | The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
- Teaching and Generative AI: Pedagogical Possibilities and Productive Tensions | Edited by Beth Buyserie & Travis N Thurston
Scholarship on AI and Writing
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Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum with AI
Traci Gardner
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AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry
Anna Mills | Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse
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More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
John Warner | Substack
Your first draft isn’t an unoriginal idea expressed clearly; it’s an original idea expressed poorly, and it is accompanied by your amorphous dissatisfaction…That’s what directs you during rewriting, and that’s one of the things lacking when you start with text generated by an A.I
Ted Chiang
Op-Eds
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We can save what matters about writing—at a price
Ted Underwood | Professor of Information Sciences and English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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The Review: ChatGPT robs students of something essential
Len Gutkin | The Chronicle of Higher Education
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AI Can’t Do Student Peer Review | And Other Op-Eds
John Warner | Inside Higher Ed
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Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis
Clay Shirky, Vice Provost at NYU | The New York Times
AI Course & Assignment Design Topics
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