In written communication, a writer's intended meaning can seem much more clear to the writer than it will appear to the reader.

Novice writers can struggle with this, worrying that they are being too obvious or believing their point has been adequately explained, and as a result, they can err on the side of under-explaining.

This challenge compounds where writing is used to demonstrate content knowledge and learners are attempting at once to both understand and communicate effectively.

#TeachingWriting #WritingStudies #RhetComp

Watching today's Mystery AI Hype Theater with @emilymbender @alex & @kendraserra

The preprint article "co-written" by Open AI intersects with a key #TeachingWriting dimension:

LLMs are good at reproducing the common boilerplate/template moves in written communication, but they have no awareness of the appropriate content with which to fill in the blanks.

When teaching with "They Say/I Say," the templates are only the first step of the learning process.

On this Valentine's day, I shared with my students, my love letter to writing...

https://markcmarino.medium.com/what-if-we-taught-writing-as-a-lifestyle-1fda70662add

#teachingwriting

What is the future of writing and writing instruction? (Not just regarding tech)

Submit a proposal for an interactive session or sign up for our symposium before Feb 20.

Online and in person at USC, May 1!

https://bit.ly/goseecoach
#teachingwriting #openai

Are you thinking about how writing is changing or how writing instruction needs to change? Submit to or sign up for The Future of Writing Symposium at USC and online May 1 sponsored by USC, @HaCCS @AhmansonLab

https://bit.ly/cfpfutureofwriting23
#teachingwriting

There are some really valid concerns here that are more well thought out than "Students are gonna plagiarize with this!" https://theconversation.com/how-chatgpt-robs-students-of-motivation-to-write-and-think-for-themselves-197875 #ChatGPT #TeachingWriting #TeachingThinking

Here's my draft of my writing assignment in the age of GPT-3 and other LLMs. Let me know if it's helpful or if you are doing something similar or different.

https://markcmarino.medium.com/gpt-this-a-writing-assignment-in-the-age-of-gpt-3-other-large-language-models-a47d2913b81

#openai #chatgpt #teachingwriting

Shocked by chatGPT? Want to think about the future of writing or writing instruction? Join us May 1! Interactive proposals due Feb 20.

http://bit.ly/cfpfutureofwriting23

#openai #teachingwriting #eliterature

At least, ChatGPT can't quote from a recent article. Or can it? New article. https://link.medium.com/Or9wccGBXwb
#skipthecatandmousegame
#chatgpt #openai #teachingwriting

CFP: The Future of Writing: A Symposium for Teachers
Pedagogy, Process, Potential
University of Southern California, online & in person
May 1, 2023
https://bit.ly/cfpfutureofwriting23
sponsored by USC's writing & journalism programs, ELO, HaCCS Lab, & Ahmanson Lab
#ChatGPT #openai #teachingwriting

@Historyball @histodons I’m not very sophisticated in my understanding of what sorts of AI are being used by my students but this seems both positive and explicit regarding its use. I feel like it is clear. Are you okay with others borrowing some of this language for policies? #teachingwriting #teaching #writing #AI #histodons #plagiarism

Teaching writing. #teaching #writing #teachingwriting #revenge #storyelements

hee hee hee hee
So, I'm playing around with https://chat.openai.com/chat/ for a writing unit late in the semester, and just discovered that it makes up the most lovely and plausible citations of articles that I wish had been written. I'm on my fourth that doesn't exist, of course.

#FictitiousBibliography, a sign that the item may have been generated using #ChatGPT

On the other hand, I think chat might be a really USEFUL tool for teaching topic sentence writing.

#TeachingWriting #FakeScholarship

I just published: ChatGPT can write your Personal Essay? No problem…mostly.
With some tips for people teaching writing this semester... (with help from Jeremy Douglass)

#chatgpt #openai #gpt3 #teachingwriting #collegeenglish
https://markcmarino.medium.com/chatgpt-can-write-your-personal-essay-no-problem-mostly-8e1b9e35a7d3

Where am I and what am I doing in January? All the details here: https://buttondown.email/KLeonardPhD/archive/january/
#NewOpera #MeetOpera #NewMusic #CreativeWriting #WritingWorkshops #Poetry #TeachingPoetry #TeachingWriting

Benefits and drawbacks of collective, digital social annotation of readings vs. individual annotation on paper? It's for a class on reading comics, so I sort of want them to be able to draw in response if they're interested.
#academadon #teachingwriting #HistoriansOnMastodon #ComicsSchool

So anyhoo that’s my #teachingwriting thought for the day. The kids are all right, the essay will survive, and there are plenty of teachers out here doing their level best to be inventive, realistic, and authentic. Donate to your local PTSA, folks! 7/7

So anyhoo that’s my #teachingwriting thought for the day. The kids are all right, the essay will survive, and there are plenty of teachers out here doing their level best to be inventive, realistic, and authentic. Donate to your local PTSA, folks! 7/7

…. We ran out of time before we could get to a freewheeling talk about the value (or not) of this, but reports of the death of English Essays are much exaggerated. But we are certainly going to need to be conscious and intentional in #teachingwriting and the construction of assignments. Asking students to regurgitate factyness is gonna result in AI fuckery because those are… easily game-able and bad assignments … 4/n

…. We ran out of time before we could get to a freewheeling talk about the value (or not) of this, but reports of the death of English Essays are much exaggerated. But we are certainly going to need to be conscious and intentional in #teachingwriting and the construction of assignments. Asking students to regurgitate factyness is gonna result in AI fuckery because those are… easily game-able and bad assignments … 4/n