CSI’s Writing Across the Curriculum program is excited to invite you to our first reading group of the semester. We will meet via Zoom on Thursday, Mar. 13 between 2:30pm and 4:00pm. This semester, we will be reading research and scholarly articles to help us think about how we can better navigate student engagement with AI writing tools in first-year writing and beyond.
The first reading is a report from the field written by Kristi Girdharry and Davit Khachatryan and titled “Meaningful Writing in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence.” Kristi and Davit share what meaningful writing means in this age of AI and how instructors can develop assignments that foster critical thinking with or without the use of AI, offering a list of similar opportunities that instructors can revise for various contexts and courses across the disciplines.
The second reading is “Generative AI in First-year Writing: An Early Analysis of Affordances, Limitations, and a Framework for the Future,” authored by Robert E. Cummings, Stephen M. Monroe, and Marc Watkins. In this reading, the author shared insights on the affordances and limitations of building AI tools into writing curriculum, sharing a critical praxis for AI engagement.
Here is the Zoom link for March 13.
We hope you can join us.
By Olalekan Adepoju, PhD
