New: Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Blog Carnival 25: [Blank]-in-the-loop Writing

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Dear colleagues,

On behalf of my co-editor and DRC Fellow, Mehdi Mohammadi (University of New Mexico, see profile here), I am pleased to share word that the fourteen submissions we received for Sweetland DRC Blog Carnival 25: [Blank]-in-the-loop Writing are now published at https://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/category/conversations/blog-carnival/blog-carnival-25/. The entries are timely and wide-ranging in their perspectives on in-the-loop writing; we're optimistic that you will find them engaging for your scholarship and your teaching. Note, as well, that as entries are published, comments are open and the contributing authors will undoubtedly find your direct dialogue with their pieces a rewarding part of the carnival event. Entry titles and authors are as follows:

• Operational-Infrastructure-in-the-Loop by Jonathan Adams (United States Military Academy–West Point)
• Surveillance-in-the-loop writing by Morgan Banville (Massachusetts Maritime Academy)
• Productive Friction: Breakdown, Resistance, and Power In-the-Loop Writing by Shuvro Das (Virginia Tech)
• Ghosts-in-the-Loop: Bormann's Ghost v. AI by Charles Grimm (Georgia Highlands College)
• Care-in-the-Loop Writing by Salma Kalim (International Islamic University)
• Expertise-in-the-loop: Genre Judgment, Context, and AI in Writing by Heather Listhartke (Winthrop University)
• Intro to Blog Carnival 25: [Blank]-in-the-loop writing by Mehdi Mohammadi (University of New Mexico) and Derek Mueller (University of Michigan)
• Duck-(and Human)-in-the-Loop Writing: Musings from a Professor and a Group of Writing Fellows by Miriam Moore, Lindsey Jones, Theodore Lopata, Sydney Michaud, Anna Rundbaken, and Isaac Vazquez (University of North Georgia)
• Relational-in-the-Loop Writing: Reframing Rhetorical Load Sharing as a Rhetorical Assemblage by Adam Phillips (University of South Florida)
• [Utopia]-in-the-loop in an Emergent Age of Full Automation by Michael J. Salvo (Purdue University) and John T. Sherrill (Michigan Technological University)
• Refusal-in-the-loop writing—or, what happened to the field that stood up to TurnItIn, Course Hero, Chegg, and paper mills? by Jennifer Sano-Franchini (West Virginia University), Maggie Fernandes (University of Arkansas), and Megan McIntyre (University of Arkansas)
• A Colleague in the Loop: Writing the Classroom Together by Chelsie Schlesinger and Karla Murphy (Arizona State University)
• Accessibility-in-the-Loop: Rhetorics of Resistance, Freedom, and Care by Joe Torok (Wayne State University)
• From Ghostwriter to Co-Author-in-the-Loop: Making AI’s Writing Labor Visible by Manuel Gonzalez Velasco (Wayne State University)
• Liminality-in-the-Loop Writing: Relational Meaning-Making in Human–Machine Composing by Liping Yang (Kennesaw State University) 

All the best,

Derek

Derek N. Mueller 
Professor, Dept. of English Language and Literature

University of Michigan
On research leave/duty off campus until June 30, 2026

der...@umich.edu || http://www.derekmueller.net/rc/

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