Writing Commons

Dear fellow teachers....

For this fall, I've cooked up a new version of my Writing with AI course. Here’s the intro:

“This course invites you to explore how generative AI (GenAI) is reshaping creativity, authorship, composing, learning, copyright, and work—and what that means for human agency. We will study writing as a technology, from cuneiform tablets to typewriters, and how each tool’s affordances and constraints influence thought, communication, and creation. You’ll conduct textual research on GenAI’s effects on cognition, academic integrity, and authorship; qualitative research through autoethnography and peer interviews on how students and workers use GenAI; and literature-based forecasting on AI’s impact on employment, job competencies, and the emergence of AGI and ASI. Throughout, you’ll write with and about AI to examine whether these tools enhance or diminish self-expression, thinking, creativity, and human agency.”

Writing with AI – Introduction to the Course - Writing Commons This undergraduate course challenges students to research the affordances and constraints of generative AI (GenAI), especially with regards to the effects of GenAI on human agency, creativity, authorship, academic integrity, copyright, intellectual property, and the future of work.

Dear Colleagues and Students,

If you don't know about Writing Commons or you haven't been there in a while, I hope you'll take a moment to check us out.

We now have about 1000 articles on matters of concern to writers. Our articles are peer reviewed, written by well regarded university professors and graduate students, and organized under major topics:

APA - 7th Edition
Citation
Collaboration
Design
Discourse
Editing
Genre
Grammar
Information Literacy
Literacy
Mindset
MLA – 9th Edition
Organization
Research
Revision
Rhetoric
Style
The Elements of Style
The Writing Process - Research on Composing

I’m thrilled to share that Kairos has awarded Writing Commons the John Lovas Award for digital scholarship at the Computers & Composition Conference (on 6/24/2023).

Every year Kairos awards the John Lovas Award to a person or project that engages in sustained engagement with topics in rhetoric, composition, or computers and writing. This honor is given to an individual or project that displays an active and consistent engagement with research and scholarship in rhetoric, composition, and computers and writing. It is awarded to authors and projects that explore the rhetoricity of new writing tools and epitomize public intellectualism, as John Lovas did with his blogging and digital scholarship.

Writing Commons is an experiment in authorship, peer-production, collaboration, community, and digital publishing. Over the last past twenty years, we have published over 200 peer-reviewed articles. Most of these works are published under a Creative Commons copyright license. The editorial process is managed by our Co-Editors-in-Chief:

Cassandra Branham, Associate Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Megan McIntyre, Director of Rhetoric, University of Arkansas.

I thank Cheryl Ball and Douglas Eyman for their amazing work on Kairos and ongoing invisible work sustaining the computers and composition community. I thank Kristi McDuffie, Chair of the Awards Committee and our peer reviewers.

I thank my colleagues and coauthors at Writing Commons, especially Cassandra Branham; Megan McIntyre; Quentin Vieregge; Jenifer D'Elia Paquette; Angela Eward-Mangione; Jennifer Jencheck; Kendra Bryant; Christine Photinos;
Jenna Pack Sheffield