CEETL was awarded a grant to study the student writing process. The study is entitled: Investigating How Students Write With GenAI: Co-Creating Innovative Curricular Materials for Writing Courses
This study aims to develop a new understanding of students’ writing processes by investigating how students use GenAI when they draft assignments in lower-division and Graduate Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR) courses. Writing instructors for lower division and GWAR courses will join a faculty learning community and co-create teaching materials with their students to understand the writing process and inform writing instruction. Our findings will help the Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CEETL) recommend changes to SLOs for writing-intensive courses, suggesting ways to include GenAI in the writing process; create transparent assignment templates and sample writing assignments using GenAI; use student-created artifacts to support writing faculty in redesigning assignments and instruction; and enable CEETL to make recommendations to campus AI literacy content developers in the tutoring center (TASC), library, and academic technology (AT).
This study is led by PI Dr Jennifer Trainor and co-PI Dr. Anoshua Chaudhuri.
