In this episode, Dennis Cheatham and I discuss various ways for partnering with generative AI as a thinking partner for writing and designing through a process-centered framework. Drawing from a course he specifically designed around creating with AI, this conversation offers insight into the use of AI tools in teaching design and writing in ways that focus on and assess the process as the means for learning. We emphasize the need for human writers and designers in this process while also highlighting the capabilities and consequences of using AI tools.

Resources Related to this Episode

• Dennis's Design Workbench Website
• AI Design Workbench Website
• Integrating AI to Guide Learning (HCWE Teaching Resource)
• AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing Starting Points for Inquiry
• AI Text Generators: Sources to Stimulate Discussion Among Teachers (compiled by Anna Mills)

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We're back from a brief hiatus with a really exciting episode for you! In this episode, you'll hear from Liz Wardle about the sensemaking method that she has developed and evolved from our Howe Faculty Writing Fellows Program. We offer an introduction to the what, why, and how behind the sensemaking method for supporting teams of faculty looking to solve problems and make change in their institutions. We are then joined by Mark Sidebottom and Jennifer Kinney to share their perspective as faculty who have been both participants and facilitators in different programs informed by this method.

Resources Related to this Episode

• Faculty Writing Fellows Program
• "Howe Center Hosts Groundbreaking "Sensemaking for Student Success" Seminar funded by Lumina Foundation
• Sensemaking for Student Success: A Cohort-Based Faculty Change Method
• Elizabeth Wardle's website: Activating Your Expertise
• Videos on our Sensemaking Method (Howe Center for Writing Excellence Youtube Channel)

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In this episode, I talk with Assistant Director of the Howe Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program, Dr. Mandy Olejnik, to discuss two different perspectives on graduate student writing—our experiences with being graduate student writers and insights for supporting and advising graduate student writers, drawing from Mandy's research and our HCWE programming on graduate student writing support. We reflect on some of the differences between writing as a graduate student and an undergraduate student, the affective elements of writing in graduate school, and the needed systems that advisors and faculty can help change and innovate to support graduate students.

Resources Related to this Episode

• HWAC Resource: Supporting Graduate Writers
• HCWE News: Changing Graduate Student Writing with Dr. Mandy Olejnik
• “Navigating Contradictions while Learning to Write: A Disciplinary Case Study of a First-term Doctoral Writer.” by Elizabeth Hutton, Mandy Olejnik, and Miranda Corpora
• "Potential of WAC in Graduate Writing Support: Helping Faculty Improve Systems of Graduate Writing" by Mandy Olejnik

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