Projects

References (Writing with AI)

Joseph M. Moxley

Anderson, J., & Rainie, L. (2022). The future of human agency. Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech. https://eloncdn.blob.core.windows.net/eu3/sites/964/2023/02/Future-of-Human-Agency-ElonU-Pew-2-24-2023.pdf Aschenbrenner, L. (2024, June). Situational awareness – The decade ahead. Situational Awareness AI. https://situational-awareness.ai/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/situationalawareness.pdf Bender, E. M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., & Shmitchell, S. (2021). On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too ...

Two professors in academic regalia arguing, with speech bubbles: one says "All AI is plagiarism!" and the other says "AI is a valuable thinking tool!"

Course AI Policy

Joseph M. Moxley

“Don’t assume any employer will feed you and pay you a salary just for being a human front-end typing things into ChatGPT!” — Jochen L. Leidner Generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok are changing how writers compose, think, and learn. In 2024, 45% of students reported using AI for a school project ...

If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.

Final Project

Deliverables Writing Prompt As a member of a twelve-student undergraduate research team, your task is to contribute to Navigating AI Disruption: A Guide for the University Community. This guide is designed to help students, faculty, administrators, and employers understand and prepare for the disruptive effects of generative AI and superintelligence. Dr. Adams is most interested ...

Protected: Metacognitive Report – AI Writing Ethics: Balancing Agency, Voice & Disclosure

Joseph M. Moxley

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A shocked student seems on his computer screen where an AI tool has told them it thinks their writing is simplistic.

Autoethnographic Study

Deliverables This creative challenge has multiple deliverables: Check Canvas for assignment due dates. Introduction to the Project In our first project, you explored writing’s enduring value by tracing its evolution from orality to digital media. Then you took a stance on how universities should respond to GenAI in student writing—should we prohibit it, permit it, ...

Creative Challenges – Fall Semester, 2024

Throughout Writing with Artificial Intelligence, an undergraduate course, students will complete the following brief creative challenges: Key Benefits of Writing Without AI for Students For teachers, scholars and researchers in writing studies, writing is not merely a means of communication, but a powerful tool for thinking and learning. By engaging in the writing process, writers ...

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Literature Review – What is the Future of Work in the Age of Superintelligence?

Deliverables Student Learning Outcomes By completing this project, students will be able to: Introduction to the Assignment Throughout this course, you’ve been invited to see writing itself as a technology: one that has always transformed human consciousness, reorganized societies, and reconfigured power and authority. From cuneiform to the printing press to generative AI, each new ...

Core research question for this assignment, "What is the appropriate response for colleges and universities to the use of generative AI in writing: maintaining existing academic integrity standards, redefining them, or prohibiting AI use altogether?"

White Paper — Generative AI, Ethics, and Academic Integrity Policy Recommendations

Outcomes Deliverables Note: The responses (responses to annotations, interviews, and White Papers) are due several days after those documents are submitted. Introduction to the Assignment This assignment builds directly on the first, where you examined how writing technologies have historically shaped human thought, consciousness, social structures, and power dynamics. Now, for this assignment, you will ...

a pic of a woman creating cave art, a monk writing a note with a quill pen, a woman on keyboard, and a man talking to GenAI

Presentation — Why Human Writing Matters in the Age of AI

Learning Outcomes By completing this project, you will: Deliverables Writing Prompt – Summary Create and record a presentation for Dr. Adams (the University’s AI Czar) and other university stakeholders who are working on Navigating AI Disruption: A Guide for the University Community. Purpose: Your presentation should introduce stakeholders to the influential scholarship of J.D. Bolter ...

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Research Methods – Introduction to the Course – ENC 3266

Joseph M. Moxley

Canvas is the course bible. The Modules page is where you will always find the current course schedule, deadlines, and announcements — if a deadline changes, it changes there first and nowhere else. The official Course Syllabus is also in Canvas. When in doubt, Canvas wins. Course Description This course introduces students to how different ...