Teaching Writing in an Age of AI

The advent of generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT offers challenges and opportunities to instructors of writing. In this section we offer suggestions for talking with students about AI, offer ideas for writing assignments that discourage the use of AI and suggest writing assignments that make use of AI (though in the absence of a UW-Madison institutional license with an AI company please do not require students to create an account). If you would like to consult with a member of the WAC team on designing or developing writing assignments with or without AI, please contact us. We also encourage you to consult the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI Working Paper, which discusses some of the risks and benefits of AI, particularly to writing, language, and literature programs and disciplines, and offers specific recommendations.