Unlike AI, teaching writing isn’t about finding efficient solutions. We want students to write, where writing is an expansive, ever-shifting, human goal connected to their own desires, skills, and the world beyond the classroom. We want writers to use their embodied, emotive selves and experiences to inform the writing and thinking that they do. And we want the technology that they use in their writing to support, not supplant, their humanity. The 15 assignments featured in the latest edition of TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments use LLMs to do just this. As teachers of writing plan for the school year ahead, we hope these assignments spark thought, inspiration, and a renewed commitment to the humanity of writing.
Link to August 2024 volume: https://wac.colostate.edu/repository/collections/continuing-experiments/august-2024/
Dr. Kristen Welch, Assistant Professor of English, Spartanburg Methodist College
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