My university applications were successful! I have two offers and am deciding between them. UNE is excellent for online learning, while Deakin is great with accessibility and based in Melbourne. Both programs are similar, though Deakin has more electives, while UNE’s writing major is broader. At Deakin, I could specialise in professional writing, which is my main interest. Decisions, decisions! #Writing #Postgrad #HigherEd #DistanceLearning #WritingStudies

I neglected to post yesterday, but in place of a link roundup I wrote (I'll be honest) a rant about generative AI and responses to it from writing studies. I'm interested to hear what folks think!

https://rickwysocki.com/posts/2024/09/i-dont-know-what-to-do-about-ai-and-neither-do-you/

#ai #artificialintelligence #writing #writingstudies #rhetoric

What do you learn from being cited?

Do you read how others build your work into their own?

I've published relatively little, but #WhatMakesWritingAcademic has been cited by a range of scholars, from feminist #HipHop to #autism in #STEM, and I'm reading it all ...
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#AcWri #WritingStudies #AcademicPublishing #AcademicMastodon

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1295268/full

Looking for any OER on Exigence that would work well for first-year students if you have any recommendations 🙏 #WritingStudies #rhetoric #composition

"Centering Students’ Rhetorical Knowledge: The Community of Inquiry as Formative Assessment": My essay on valuing the rhetorical experiences of diverse students in peer-review contexts has appeared in _Legal Writing_ vol. 27 @JLWIonline@twitter.com

#LawProfs
#LegalWriting
#TeamRhetoric
#WritingStudies
#TechComm
#EliReview

'chatGPT does not know the meaning of words.' @collin_bjork writes about #GenerativeAI and #diversity.

#WritingStudies #HigherEd #AIwriting

https://theconversation.com/chatgpt-threatens-language-diversity-more-needs-to-be-done-to-protect-our-differences-in-the-age-of-ai-198878

CALL FOR RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS! Joshua Barsczewski and I are doing a study of writing program administrator (WPA) labor. We want to learn more about the dizzying array of WPA tasks you do and your emotional relationship to those tasks.

We are broadly defining WPA—FYW program director, writing center director, WAC or WID program director, etc. Any administrative position for a program with writing as central to its mission at institution of higher education.

If interested, you’d log work tasks and time for them and write weekly journal entries for 3 weeks. Then we would interview you for about 1 hour. Please contact me here or email me at daniel.libertz@baruch.cuny.edu with any questions or next steps to participate.

Please boost if you can! Thanks! #teamrhetoric #wplife #WritingStudies

The journal _Argumentation_ has accepted “Reconceiving Argument Schemes as Descriptive and Practically Normative.” This thread summarizes our revision of work of #DouglasWalton et al. I argue here (and elsewhere) that #ArgumentSchemes are essential for making sense of #LegalArguments and #LegalReasoning. 1/6

#ShareYourWork (Pinned profile post has hashtag explainer)
#LegalWriting
#LegalPhilosophy
#Argumentation
#ArgumentationSchemes
#WritingStudies
#TeamRhetoric
#LawProfs

Thanks in part to great suggestions I've had over the last couple days about making my Mastodon experience even better, I'm following a bunch of folks from #lawfedi #philosophy and #CommStudies. Just sayin in case I look like some kinda crazy follow-bot. I use hashtags to post on and track topics I'm interested in. Follow back if any of these are your gigs:

#LawProfs
#argumentation
#LegalPhilosophy
#LegalWriting
#TeamRhetoric
#WritingStudies
#TechComm
#Section508

Is the problem with #ChatGPT 'cheating,' or is it failure to practice what you want to be? The take from @billhd@twitter.com
https://billhd.medium.com/missing-practice-bdd8d27375db

#TeamRhetoric #WritingStudies #TechComm #LegalWriting

@shakil_prof @teamrhetoric @writingstudies @languagelovers I was part of wireless carriers launching teams when the switch from analog to digital phones took place. Remember cell phone manufacturers explaining that we’d eventually shop and do our banking through phones. We laughed :ablobthinkingeyes: I wonder how ChatGPT will change the way we teach and learn #writing #WritingStudies #techcomm #teamrhetoric #academia

Lots of talk about AI and writing instruction but we might also focus on the mental and emotional relationship to social media and anxiety of writing to complete assignments and how these feed into each other. Had a great paper from a student on this topic. There might be a notable cycle of anxiety that social media and assignment writing might be feeding into each other in important ways. The past few years may have intensified this cycle? Do we study this enough? #teamrhetoric #WritingStudies

Getting cozy AF in my winter "break" office to work on explaining ethos and expertise #FoodRhetorics #Writing #WritingStudies

#TeamRhetoric #WritingStudies #TechComm #LegalWriting friends: I'm on a project with a long #PDF report where I must ensure its compliance with #Section508 and other federal regulations relating to #DocumentAccessibility . I'm hoping to go beyond mere legal compliance, though, and seek state-of-the-art accessibility resources. I can search the web (and have), but I'm interested in resources you have actually used or supervised others using that you have found especially useful. Boost plz!

One of the grad students in my #foodrhetorics course turned their final paper into a 5 episode podcast that blends their experience, textual analysis of two memoirs, and spatial rhetorical analysis to take on depictions of chronic illness and food. I don't think I've ever enjoyed grading a final project as much as this one! #writingstudies

My research assistant this morning 🥰 She's helping me track down some research on using digital-born special collections in first year compositon classes. We are both working hard on "tooting" properly 😂 #AcWri #WritingStudies

Okay so I've had a chance to play around with it, asking it to produce a lit review on breastfeeding. It basically reads like copy from a healthline web page on the topic. Asking it to repeat the action produces different results, sometimes with citations, but all versions lack the specificity and critical analysis I ask of students when they write lit reviews for my class 🤷‍♀️ #writingstudies #composition #pedagogy

For anyone interested in Writing Studies, the latest #WRAB2023 programme has been uploaded (February 2023 in Trondheim, Norway).

Anyone else o #AcademicMastodon who's going?

#AcWri #WritingAcrossBorders #HigherEducation #WritingStudies #WritingForPublication #TransLingualism #WritingAssessment
https://www.ntnu.edu/wrab23/program

I’ve been playing around with #OpenAI and really wondering where we’re going to go from here with #writingstudies and higher education, in general.
I had to play around with my prompts, but it produced a good starting place for an essay on analyzing a specific genre rhetorically and and essay that argues for a change in a community. I can’t even imagine where it will be in a few years.
#ai #AcademicMastdon #writing