Category: AI Writing
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OpenAI is Coming for Writers
There’s something brewing at OpenAI, and it’s not their often promised AGI. While Altman seduces investors with the speculative promises of Artificial General Intelligence and ever more powerful versions of GPT, a very real play is being made for much more concrete territory. Over the past few months, a number of product releases and updates…
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Why Writing Needs Good Friction
Technology companies aim to minimise “friction” in user experience, a concept also relevant in psychology and education. While some see friction as a valuable part of the writing process, others seek to reduce it. Diverse viewpoints from authors, educators, and AI experts generate a larger conversation about the implications of artificial intelligence and writing.
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Teaching AI Writing: Publication
This is the sixth and final post in a series exploring how generative artificial intelligence can be applied to the writing cycle from our book Practical Writing Strategies. If you haven’t already read them, check out the first five posts on purpose, exploration, ideas, skills, and collaboration. Throughout this series, I have tried to demonstrate…
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Teaching AI Writing: Collaboration
This is the fifth post in a series exploring how Generative AI can be incorporated into the writing cycle from our book Practical Writing Strategies. Check out the previous stages of the writing cycle: Purpose, Exploration, Ideas, and Skills. Collaboration in the Writing Cycle By the time students reach this stage in the writing cycle,…
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Teaching AI Writing: Skills
This is the fourth post in a series exploring how generative artificial intelligence can be used as part of the writing cycle. If you haven’t already, check out the previous posts on purpose, exploration and ideas. In the writing cycle that we wrote about in Practical Writing Strategies we break out “skills” as separate from…
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Teaching AI Writing: Ideas
This is the third post in a series exploring how generative artificial intelligence tools can be a part of the writing cycle to help students improve their writing technique, style, and structure. For the previous post on the ‘exploration’ stage, click here. Idea generation can of course happen at any time during the writing process,…
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Teaching AI Writing: Exploration
This is the second post in the series, focusing on how generative artificial intelligence tools, such as text and image generation, can support the writing process. It follows the writing cycle outlined in our book Practical Writing Strategies, emphasising how generative AI can enhance writing skills without relying entirely on technology. For the previous post…
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Teaching AI Writing: Purpose
This is the first post in a series exploring how multimodal generative AI (genAI) writing tools can be applied to all stages of the writing cycle, from purpose through to publication. The six stages of the writing cycle, taken from the book Practical Writing Strategies co-authored by myself and Benjamin White, encourage writers to explore…
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Writing against GenAI: Opposite day
This post is part of a series on Writing with GenAI. These posts offer quick ideas, lesson plans, and examples of ways to use multimodal Generative AI writing tools to augment, but not replace, writing in a variety of forms and purposes. Inspired by a post by CEO of The Atlantic Nicholas Thompson, this quick…
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Teaching Writing with Generative AI
This post is based on a presentation I ran recently at the AATE conference. It takes the writing cycle approach from our book ‘Practical Writing Strategies‘ and applies Generative AI at various stages. One of the most pressing concerns at the recent Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE) conference was the implications of…