Dear Colleagues,
How are GenAI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Copilot) affecting the writing center? How are directors reacting and adjusting? Who has innovative ideas they could share?
For the third year, our Cornell research team is conducting an IRB-approved survey on the impacts of GenAI tools on writing centers. As with the previous years, we’ll use your input to write a report, which we will share by the end of summer. Later, we hope to include the results in at least one research article.
Please help us by taking 5-20 minutes to fill out this year’s survey:
https://cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2rTYivJgx7BwMl0
This year we will ask many of the same questions to get a longitudinal perspective, but we’ve added a component asking about innovative GenAI approaches. If you are developing innovations, we hope we can interview you and share your ideas with our writing center community.
To view our 2024 report (which has over 3,400 reads), select this link:
2024 Report on AI Writing Tools’ Impacts on Writing Centers
This link goes to our 2023 report:
2023 Report on AI Chatbots’ Impacts on Writing Centers
Thank you,
Dr. Nathan Lindberg
Director of Cornell ELSO Writing & Presenting Tutoring Service
Kate Navickas
Director of Cornell Writing Centers
Jaymee Palma
Cornell PhD Candidate in Biochemistry
Dr. Kate Navickas | she/her/hers, pronounce name
Cornell Writing Centers Director
174 Rockefeller Hall
Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines
Cornell University