New: AWAC Statement on AI and Writing

[ten grrl]

Dear Colleagues,

 

The Executive Committee of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum (AWAC) has published a Statement on Artificial Intelligence Writing Tools in Writing Across the Curriculum Settings.

 

A couple weeks ago, we’d emailed a draft of the statement to AWAC members, several of whom responded with thoughtful suggestions. Those replies helped our revision, and I appreciate those who wrote.

 

There’s much work to be done about the promise and peril of AI text generation, but I hope you’ll find this statement useful now in your own situations.

 

You’ll notice that in addition to stating our position, underpinned by well-established WAC values of writing to learn and learning discursive conventions, we remind people that the WAC community has for decades established best practices for assigning and teaching writing.  AI writing is yet another occasion for reminding colleagues of practices we have advocated for half a century or more.

 

Here’s the whole URL: https://wacassociation.org/resource/statement-on-ai-writing-tools-in-wac/, redundant of the embedded link above.

 

Sincerely,

 

Doug Hesse, AWAC Chair

on behalf of

Justin Rademaekers, Incoming Chair

Ann Blakeslee, Past Chair

Laurie Britt-Smith, Treasurer

Karen Moroski-Rigney, Secretary

Sherri Craig, Member at Large

Paula Rosinski, Member at Large