In August 2023, WAC Clearinghouse the co-edited collection TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies (Eds. Vee, Laquintano, Schnitzler), a collection of early experiments in pedagogy with generative text technology, including but not limited to AI. The fully open access and peer-reviewed collection features 34 undergraduate-level assignments to support students' AI literacy, rhetorical and ethical engagements, creative exploration, and professional writing text generation technology, along with an Introduction to guide instructors' understanding and their selection of what to emphasize in their courses. TextGenEd enables teachers to integrate text generation technologies into their courses and respond to this crucial moment.
In the spirit of those pedagogical experimentations with text gen tech, we invite submissions for writing assignments using a range of text generation technologies (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Markov chains, various Python libraries, etc.) to be included in a new, "Continuing Experiments" section of TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies, our way of expanding and updating the original collection. The work of teaching writing is a constant process of experimentation, revision, and collaboration, particularly when teaching with technologies that shift and evolve quickly.
The link to submit assignment is here. Deadline for December publication is November 30. More information below!
Contributions could include assignments that ask students to:
We welcome contributions from across the undergraduate and graduate curriculum—anywhere writing is taught, including in creative, academic, technical, legal, composition, linguistic, historical, and computational contexts. As with the original collection, the "Continuing Experiments" section will attend to a diversity of student and teacher backgrounds and aims to be as accessible as possible. All accepted assignments will be made fully open access and free online, licensed CC-BY-NC. Assignments must have been taught at least once before submission.
Please visit the TextGenEd collection for example assignments. Each submitted assignment should include:
Publication Details
Assignments will be reviewed by an editorial team led by Carly Schnitzler and including the other editors of the TextGenEd collection (Annette Vee and Tim Laquintano) before being published on the "Continuing Experiments" section of the TextGenEd digital collection. We (eds.) will publish selected and edited submissions twice per year, in December and in August. Review for December publication will begin November 30 and review for August publication will begin May 31.
Please contact Carly Schnitzler at cschnit1@jh.edu with any questions or suggestions for the "Continuing Experiments" section. We are so looking forward to see how you're experimenting!