Full Description
AI and Writing is an introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and its emergent role as a tool for academic, professional, civic, and personal writing. Sid Dobrin examines GenAI from two perspectives: the conceptual and the applied. The conceptual approach asks readers to consider the function of GenAI in their writing and to consider the ramifications of its use as a writing tool especially the ethical, social, and material issues it raises. The applied approach offers guidance to assist readers in using GenAI responsibly and authentically. In consideration of the rapid evolution of GenAI and the many unsettled questions about its utility, this book leaves room for readers to adapt to shifting technological and institutional contexts.This book is intended for composition and writing-intensive courses, and for any readers with a general or professional interest in the role of GenAI in writing. While it's primarily designed for first-year writing courses, it's also applicable to courses in advanced writing, professional writing, technical writing, business writing, and writing across the curriculum, as well as writing-intensive courses in other disciplines. In other words, it can be used in any course in which students are required to produce texts.
Contents
I. Introduction: ChatGPT and the Generative Artificial Intelligence Surge
Automated Writing: It's not Really New
History of Writing Technologies and Cultural Panic
II. What is Generative AI? (And for that matter, what is AI?)
The Myths of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Briefly Defined
Generative Artificial Intelligence Briefly Defined
How Does Generative Artificial Intelligence Work?
What are our Assumptions and Expectations about GenAI?
III. Generative AI and Academic Integrity (as well as professional, civic, and personal integrity)
Generative AI and Integrity
The Plagiarism Problem
Spaces of Judgement
IV. What is an Author?
Generative AI and the Idea of Authorship
Where is My Writing?
Writing with Algorithms
Does generative AI 'Write'?
V. The Places of Generative AI Writing
Academic
Professional
Civic
Personal
VI. Generative AI and Writing Processes
Generative AI and Invention
Generative AI and Drafting
Generative AI and Revision
VII. Generative AI and Creativity
What is Art?
What is original?
Visual Rhetoric and GenAI
Generative AI and Multimodal Writing
VIII. Generative AI Best Practices
