I’m a writing professor who sees artificial intelligence as more of an opportunity for students, rather than a threat. That sets me apart from some of my colleagues, who fear that AI is accelerating a ...

Debates about generative AI in higher education have been informed by studies of completed student papers, or self-reported survey data. Research shows that artificial intelligence tools can support ...

I will never forget the student who—upon being given 15 minutes at the end of class to get rolling on the writing assignment I’d just given—whipped out their phone and starting furiously typing away.

As AI cements itself firmly into classrooms, one large and lingering question concerns when and how students can use it appropriately. It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative ...

The new questions-of-the-week is: How do you get students to want to revise their writing? Getting students to revise their writing can be a challenge. Often, they have a “one-and-done” perspective.

When the company OpenAI launched its new artificial intelligence program, ChatGPT, in late 2022, educators began to worry. ChatGPT could generate text that seemed like a human wrote it. How could ...

Late at night, a student sits at her desk while the soft glow of a laptop screen casts shadows across the room. Outside, the city street is quiet, but inside, her mind is racing. Fingers hover over ...

This was an eighth-grade student’s response to a question I posed in a reading response assignment tied to the play, “The Diary of Anne Frank.” The question asked was: “Why does Anne hide Peter’s ...

Most directly admitted first year students at RIT will be advised to enroll in a section of First Year Writing (UWRT 150). Students who have approved transfer credit for a first year writing course, ...

Rather than hand off writing to chatbots, college students in pilots showed that they use them to brainstorm and help get started. Kriangsak Koopattanakij/iStock via Getty Images Debates about ...