Pub Date : 2025-01-30DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102916
Alecia Marie Magnifico , Karis Jones
Due to their rapid evolution, scholars sometimes categorize digital and computer-mediated genres as fully distinct from more traditional offline genres. In this theoretical exploration, we complicate binaries of online/offline to understand networked genres in their own right and situate fanfiction and its associated practices. We examine how social genres intertwine with reader response and transliteracies in the complex, ongoing fandom conversations that surround original texts and fan works. We consider the computer-mediated and networked nature of fandom practices and communities, and how these networks allow fans to interact with source content in ways that are distinct from more official interpretive communities such as publishers and literary critics, media producers and reviewers, or writing instructors. Finally, we explore how literature and publishing have been disrupted by contexts like fandoms where texts are often constructed online in bottom-up ways— and the consequences of this disruption for learning about composition.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-24DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102915
Rebekah Shultz Colby
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.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-21DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2025.102914
Matthew Overstreet
The internet contains a wealth of informational resources. To use online information sources effectively, though, writers must know how to evaluate their credibility. This article reports on an effort to enhance source evaluation skill among a group of second language writers. Researchers used interviews, authentic writing tasks and screen-recording to chart the source use and evaluation practices of participants before and after their first year of university. In the interim, participants were introduced to online research skills including lateral reading, a popular source evaluation technique. We found that when asked to engage in research writing, these writers consistently turned to non-academic sources, especially online news sites and for-profit companies. They deployed seven types of source evaluation strategy and over the course of the study, as a group, traded weaker strategies for stronger ones. These findings provide a glimpse of the current online information ecosystem, as well as a framework to help teachers and researchers better understand how novice writers make choices in networked space. They suggest that the pedagogy offered was a limited success and provide guidance as to how it might be improved.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-10DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102913
Asmita Ghimire
This article proposes the implementation of a transnational post-digital pedagogy and Critical AI literacy incorporating ChatGPT in the classroom. It draws upon Scott Graham's suggestion for a multidimensional recursive writing process, emphasizing fact-checking and revision while utilizing ChatGPT. Additionally, it incorporates Suresh Canagarajah's (2019) theorization of transnational habits of writing among most international, multilingual, and marginalized students, which, according to him, are characterized by rhetorical sensitivity, depth of awareness, and linguistic knowledge. Based on these empirical and theoretical perspectives, this article proposes pausing, pondering, posing, and prioritizing as critical praxis that can be built into metacognitive activities. To explain this praxis, it showcases two kinds of metacognitive activities for fostering transnational habits among students through fact-checking processes. Similarly, it suggests designing the revision phase of writing assignments to allow students to incorporate their English language skills into the classroom. This paper identifies engaging in critical dialogue with ChatGPT and encouraging self-reflection on fact-checking and revision as effective ways to cultivate a transnational habitus among students. It concludes that adopting a transnational post-digital critical pedagogy and critical AI literacy in the writing process benefits both national and international students by promoting diverse linguistic norms and perspectives.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102910
Tracey Hayes
The Inauguration of Joe Biden led to the creation of the Bernie Sanders and his Mittens meme, which had a mask-wearing Sanders huddled on a folding chair (socially distanced) wearing his hand-knitted mittens watching the inauguration. Individuals and organizations crafted their own versions with Sanders (and his mittens) appearing everywhere from The Muppet Show to Da Vinci's painting of the Last Supper. These memes have a connection to the pandemic focusing on aspects related to the pandemic such as social distancing, mask wearing, and isolation. This article serves two purposes, the first uses humor theories and their functions combined with the rhetoric of intertextuality to analyze how these memes functioned and thus provided commentary about life during a pandemic. These memes provided stress relief using humor, but also united people, created community, and established an archive of the time during the pandemic. The second purpose applies the classical rhetorical canon to memes thus exploring how memes can be relevant tools for teaching digital rhetoric.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-17DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102896
Blaine E. Smith , Amanda Yoshiko Shimizu , Sarah K. Burriss , Melanie Hundley , Emily Pendergrass
The question of how generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) will reshape communication is causing questions and concerns across the field of education, particular literacy and writing classrooms. Although important questions have surfaced surrounding the varied effects on writing instruction and ethical implications of AI in the classroom, there are calls for deeper investigations about how these tools might shape multimodal composing processes. This study builds upon this developing field by exploring how 21 university students in literacy education courses multimodally composed with generative AI and their perspectives on the use of AI in the classroom. Data sources included screen capture and video observations, design interviews, pre- and post- surveys, and multimodal products. Through qualitative and multimodal analysis, four main themes emerged for understanding preservice teachers’ multimodal composing processes: (1) composing was an iterative process of prompting guided by the AI tools, (2) composers exhibited two distinct processes when designing their projects, (3) AI shaped creative possibilities, and (4) play, humor, and surprise served a key function while composing. Preservice teachers’ perspectives also revealed insights into how AI shaped engagement with content, the importance of scaffolding AI in the classroom, and how ethics were intertwined with technical function and teaching beliefs.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-14DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102909
Nóra Wünsch-Nagy
Access to generative artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the pedagogical and creative potential of digital practices in multimodal pedagogies, and more specifically, digital multimodal compositions (DMC). This study aims to explore and understand choices in a DMC project from the perspectives of student experiences and the teacher's pedagogical practices including learning design, assessment, and the integration of AI in the context of a semester-long university course. To answer these questions, the case study presents the analysis of the teacher's choices in terms of course design, and scaffolding and assessment practices. It also explores the challenges students face through the analysis of their pre- and post-course questionnaires, digital multimodal composition artefacts and reflective notes. The study makes suggestions in terms of pedagogical sequences to support students’ choice-making, and the integration of semiotic software and generative AI tools into DMC projects.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-08DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102907
Jeanne Dutton
To stave off extinction, many Small Liberal Arts Colleges (SLACs) have undertaken dramatic initiatives—often scripted by outside consultants—to bolster their financial solvency, increase their enrollment, excite donor interest, and revitalize their pedagogy, Writing Scholars like Overstreet (2022) and Devoss, Cushman and Grabill (2005) have called for more fine-grained analysis of the sites of Higher Education and the changes that occur in how they teach and engage in the activity of writing and composition. Though multiple studies have measured the efficacy of a newly introduced technological systems of practice to improve writing, much less research has gone into understanding the compositional design of what ‘good’ represents or how value may skew toward the various ideologies that support other stakeholders in addition to the implementing entity. Writing technologies, measured by the criteria of the very literacies which they enact (digital proficiency determining the value of digital tools, for example, mobile proficiency determining the value of mobile tools) often introduce cycles of spending in SLACs which compel them to re-invest in simulacrums of the externally defined modern or good even as the internal struggles that justify spending remain consistent and problematic. This study, borrowing from the spatial analysis of scholars like Pigg (2014) and genre studies of Spinuzzi (2003), looks at how the propositions of a 1:1 technology initiative cut across a local community and were shared, lived, and governed collectively to see the multimodal whole of a community plan to create innovation and improve their social condition.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-03DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102892
Hem Lal Pandey , Purna Chandra Bhusal , Sanjeev Niraula
This study examines the perspectives of twenty-five First-Year Composition (FYC) instructors on the impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Digital Multimodal Composition (DMC) in FYC classrooms. The primary objectives are to assess instructors' views on the effects of LLMs like ChatGPT on FYC pedagogy and to explore how DMC can be brought into conversation within these impacts. Employing qualitative surveys with open-ended questions, the study collected, coded, and thematized the data, generating three major key themes: creativity, plagiarism, and DMC engagement. The FYC instructors' perspectives and observations indicate that LLMs have both encroaching and enhancing effects on FYC classrooms, wherein DMC may be a potential tool to attenuate the negative impacts of LLMs by fostering student engagement. This study highlights the complex, dilemmatic perspectives of FYC instructors and underscores the urgent need for LLM and DMC literacy to advance FYC pedagogy in the context of technological advancements.
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Pub Date : 2024-12-03DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102908
Megan McIntyre
Each year, in TA orientation, in the practicum course, and in professional development sessions, I ask TAs and instructors to consider what is, for me, the key question at the heart of our work as writing teachers: what do we owe our students? And a related and equally important question: what do we owe ourselves? In 2024, just over two years into the public existence of OpenAI's ChatGPT, the contexts for these questions are perhaps more complicated than ever, but I think the answers are mostly the same: we owe our students equitable classrooms, space to try and to fail, compassion and care, and authentic engagement. We owe them the rights our discipline affirmed almost fifty years ago when CCCC adopted Students’ Right to Their Own Language as the official position of the largest organization of writing teachers in the world. This article reviews an approach to the current Generative AI moment that is rooted in these commitments and reflects an approach I call “informed refusal,” which allows us to acknowledge the existence of generative AI without requiring students to use generative AI products. We can continue to teach critical literacies and attend to the things that make first-year writing classrooms unique, especially our attention to individualized feedback on students’ writing and our attention to helping students build self-efficacy via sustainable writing processes and reflective habits of mind. At the same time, I argue against the adoption of detectors and other writing surveillance technologies because of the ways that such tools reinforce overly simplistic notions of plagiarism (Moore-Howard) and can harm our relationships with students.
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