New: Writing Centers & AI: Generating Early Conversations

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Hi Folks,

I’m pleased to share the news that the WAC Clearinghouse (https://wacclearinghouse.org) has published its 250^th open-access book, which makes me quite happy and I hope it makes others happy as well. The new book appears in the book series, Perspectives on Writing, which is edited by Rich Rice and J. Michael Rifenburg.

Writing Centers and AI: Generating Early Conversations

Edited by Elisabeth H. Buck and Joshua Botvin

The landscape of higher education has been forever changed by the proliferation of AI-powered large language models. Machine-generated text has provided new opportunities for academic integrity violations, the death of critical thought, and the end to the humanities at large—or, at least, that’s what we’re being told.

The editors and contributors to Writing Centers and AI: Generating Early Conversations—among them writing center tutors and administrators, writing teachers, and disciplinary leaders—posit that writing centers are ideally positioned to assess the remarkable shift in the ways that students are now learning and writing. Drawing on praxis-based, data-driven, and narrative approaches, their 27 chapters explore the intersections of AI and writing center work. The result is a practical guide for writing center practitioners at all levels that addresses the critical role writing centers can and should play in helping students, faculty, and institutions navigate this complicated and historic moment.

You can find the book at https://wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspectives/generating/. This book, like other books published by the Clearinghouse, will be available in a print edition from University Press of Colorado in the coming months. Thanks to Elisabeth and Joshua for their work on the book and for their decision to share it with us as an open-access publication. Thanks as well to the anonymous peer reviewers who contributed to its development.

All the best,

Mike

 

Mike Palmquist

Publisher, The WAC Clearinghouse

https://wacclearinghouse.org

Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Associate Provost

Colorado State University

Email: Mike.Pa...@ColoState.edu

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