Computers and Composition Mar 2025 Open Access

Playing the digital dialectic game: Writing pedagogy with generative AI

Rebekah Shultz Colby University of Denver

Abstract

This article explores teaching writing with generative AI as critical play where students and teachers engage in an ethically dialectical and aleatory game with generative AI. I qualitatively surveyed 24 writing teachers about how they teach writing with generative AI as well as its advantages and disadvantages. I discovered that teachers used generative AI to teach about the ethics of generative AI's design and rhetorical use to avoid plagiarism. Teachers also critically played with generative AI to teach the writing process of invention, drafting, revision, and editing. Specifically, the critical, dialectical interplay of human and machine invents in aleatory and emergent ways, creating moments of epiphany for students and teachers within the writing process for invention, drafting, revision, and editing while the real time pace of generative AI democratizes education, making writing and teaching more accessible for them.

Journal
Computers and Composition
Published
2025-03-01
DOI
10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102915
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Topics
writing pedagogy artificial intelligence

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