AI and Writing
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: Aug 2023
Place of publication: Ontario, Canada
Format: Softcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781554816514
Copyright date: 2023
First sentence: For the most part, formal writing instruction hasn’t changed much over the last eighty years or so.
Description: AI and Writing is an introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and its emergent role as a tool for academic, professional, civic, and personal writing. Sid Dobrin examines GenAI from two perspectives: the conceptual and the applied. The conceptual approach addresses the function of GenAI and the ramifications of its use as a writing tool – especially the ethical, social, and material issues it raises. The applied approach offers guidance to assist readers in using GenAI responsibly and authentically. In consideration of the rapid evolution of GenAI and the many unsettled questions about its role, Dobrin leaves room for readers to adapt to shifting technological and institutional conventions.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; label: PART I
title: UNDERSTANDING GENERATIVE AI; label: CHAPTER 1
title: CHANGE; title: Introducing GenAI; title: Automated Writing: It’s Not Really New; title: History of Writing Technologies and Cultural Panic; title: Conceptual and Applied AI; title: Human–Machine Collaboration; title: So What?; title: Users Aren’t Losers; label: CHAPTER 2
title: GENERATIVE AI; title: AI’s Origins; title: The New AI; title: Generative Artificial Intelligence; title: How Generative AI Works; title: Hallucinations; label: CHAPTER 3
title: INTEGRITY; title: Academic Integrity; title: Plagiarism; title: Show Your Work; title: Citation; label: PART II
title: OPPORTUNITIES AND APPLICATIONS; label: CHAPTER 4
title: WRITING WITH GenAI; title: Invention and Prewriting; title: Research; title: Drafting; title: Revising; title: Editing and Proofreading; title: Climbing Mount Everest; label: CHAPTER 5
title: PROMPTS; title: Writing Effective Prompts; title: Refining Prompts; label: CHAPTER 6
title: VISUALS; title: Visual Rhetoric and GenAI; title: From Words to Images; title: Visuals and Hallucinations; title: Visuals and Ethics; label: CHAPTER 7
title: CONTEXTS OF USE; title: Academic Contexts; title: Professional Contexts; title: Civic Contexts; title: Personal Contexts; label: CHAPTER 8
title: CAREER READINESS; title: Skills for Developing and Applying GenAI; title: Skills That Benefit from GenAI; label: PART III
title: CHALLENGES; label: CHAPTER 9
title: BIAS; title: Algorithmic Bias; title: Exclusionary Bias; title: Equitable Access; label: CHAPTER 10
title: MATERIALITY; title: Points of Material Impact; title: The Cradle: Extraction; title: The Grave: Disposal and E-Waste; title: Notes; title: Image Credits