Led by Meghan Velez and Kara Taczak, join us for the third webinar in our 2025-2026 Webinar Series!

According to a recent New Yorker article, college students use ChatGPT to be “resourceful” and "efficient" yet many suggest they don’t retain any learning when they use it. This article’s main premise centered on what might happen after AI destroys college writing. But it, like many other media publications, asks the wrong types of questions. Instead of making connections to writing studies’ core threshold concepts, such as “all writers have more to learn” or “writing is (also) always a cognitive activity”, they focus on rigid, narrow versions of academic writing reinforcing to students (and fellow educators) that writing is not rhetorical. As the continuing proliferation of AI technologies forces us to reenvision our definitions of what writing is and what it means, it becomes even more important to invite our students to do so as well. This webinar will discuss one such invitation: the use of social reflection and AI-generated texts in first-year writing courses as a way of empowering writers to theorize and question their processes, practices, beliefs, attitudes, and understandings about writing (Dryer et al., 2015).

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