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Stanford Program in Writing and Rhetoric
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My response to the college writing crisis is the same as my response to generative AI:

If only we had a field with decades of scholarship (and thousands of experienced teachers and scholars!) professors from across the academy could turn to in our hour of need! 😭 cccc.ncte.org
Welcome to the CCCC website! - Conference on College Composition and Communication
Since 1949, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) has been the world’s largest professional organization for researching and teaching composition, from writing to new media. W...
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February 11, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Hear, hear!
YES. Teaching students to assess the provenance/relevance of sources is a key goal in college writing instruction. People think ChatGPT makes those skills unnecessary. But this isn’t like learning your times tables in case your calculator breaks. We teach this because it’s *really hard to do well.*
January 30, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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I'm doing some #LearningOutLoud this season and just shared 24 things I'm experimenting w/ in 2024, for anyone who is interested: youtu.be/FjKEzkN7Hf8

The biggest thing that is stretching me + bringing me such joy is called #LiaScript, which I learned about fr Alan Levine's Tech Tools RSS feed.
24 things I'm experimenting with in my teaching in 2024
To mention a few: Open textbook using LiaScript and MarkdownAI generated imagesSimple structure (influenced by Mike Wesch)Etc.
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January 29, 2024 at 8:58 PM
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I’m giving a webinar this Tuesday for the Association of American Literary Agents! Registration is open for folks across publishing. Join us!

aalitagents.org/event/dei-co...
January 27, 2024 at 3:45 PM
First Writer's Studio of the year! Join PWR's Kevin DiPirro for a workshop on "Writing into Grief"
January 20, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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Worried about AI and writing? Donald Murray has us covered: "Instead of teaching finished writing, we should teach unfinished writing, ...We work with language in action we share with our students the continual excitement of choosing one word instead of another, of searching for the one true word."
January 17, 2024 at 10:43 PM
Welcome to Winter quarter, Stanford!
January 8, 2024 at 4:09 PM
The Stanford Storytelling Project is launching this year’s Writer’s Studio workshop series, co-hosted with Creative Writing and the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking, live and in-person at the Hume Center, this Monday.
October 14, 2023 at 5:17 PM