A resource list for writing centers in the face of rapidly advancing AI. Be sure to check out Hofstra’s Writing Center — always innovating its practices and solidifying its mission as the writing landscape around us transforms dramatically.
Spring 2023
Large Language Models Write Answers (Annette Vee / Composition Studies)
Truth-Telling: Critical Inquiries on LLMs and the Corpus Texts That Train Them (Antonio Byrd / Composition Studies)
I’m a Student. You Have No Idea How Much We’re Using ChatGPT. (Owen Kichizo Terry / The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Defining Moments, Definitive Programs, and the Continued Erasure of Missing People (Alfred L. Owusu-Ansah / Composition Studies)
A Dis-Facilitated Call for More Writing Studies in the New AI Landscape; or, Finding Our Place Among the Chatbots (Courtney Stanton / Composition Studies)
Don’t Act Like You Forgot: Approaching Another Literacy “Crisis” by (Re)Considering What We Know about Teaching Writing with and through Technologies (Gavin P. Johnson / Composition Studies)
The Pedagogical Dangers of AI Detectors for the Teaching of Writing (Jacob Hubbard / Composition Studies)
Lessons Learned from Machine Learning Researchers about the Terms “Artificial Intelligence” and “Machine Learning” (John R. Gallagher / Composition Studies)
Meta-Writing: AI and Writing (Aimée Morrison / Composition Studies)
Alien Brains & Metacognition: Using AI to Facilitate Human Learning (Noël Ingram / Field Notes on Digital Learning at Boston College)
Post-Process but Not Post-Writing: Large Language Models and a Future for Composition Pedagogy (S. Scott Graham / Composition Studies)
A chat about ChatGPT with the Director of the Harvard Writing Center (Glenn Leibowitz & Jane Rosenzweig / Write With Impact Academy)
Summer 2023
The Pedagogical Dangers of AI Detectors for the Teaching of Writing (Jacob Hubbard / Composition Studies)
GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers (Weixin Liang et al. / Patterns)
Dear students: Should you use AI for writing? (Annette Vee, Tim Laquintano / AI and the Teaching of Writing)
AI in the Writing Center: Small Steps and Scenarios (Thomas Deans et al. / another word)
Writing centres and ChatGPT: And then all at once (Brian Hotson / CWCA/ACCR)
Using ChatGPT or other generative AI in your assignments (University of Queensland)
From Writing to Prompting: AI as Zeitgeist-Machine (Boris Groys / e-flux)
Fall 2023
Students’ Right to Write (Jonathan Alexander / Inside Higher Ed)
AI Won’t Replace Writing Instruction (Mandy Olejnik / Inside Higher Ed)
What Students Can Do with AI in the Writing Classroom (Rachel Morgan / Composition Studies)
Writing Centers & the Dark Warehouse University: Generative AI, Three Human Advantages (Joe Essid / Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies)
2023 (n.d.)
ChatGPT Isn’t Magic: The Hype and Hypocrisy of Generative AI Rhetoric (Tama Leaver, Suzanne Srdarov / M/C Journal)
An Introduction to Teaching with Text Generation Technologies (Tim Laquintano et al. / TextGenEd)
Bringing AI to the Center: What Historical Writing Center Software Discourse Can Teach Us about Responses to AI-Based Writing Tools (Matthew D. Bryan / Proceedings of the Computers & Writing Conference)
Rhetorical Prompt Engineering (Bryan Kopp et al. / WAC Clearinghouse)
Spring 2024
CFP — Writing Centers and AI: Generating Early Conversations (Elisabeth Buck & Joshua Botvin / UMass Dartmouth)
The College Writing Center in Times of Crisis (Genie N. Giaimo / Los Angeles Review of Books)
Writing Studies and Rhetoric Blog 