Generative AI and Writing Education

Generative AI affects how students learn to write in more ways than one. Digital literacy experts Troy Hicks and Kristen Hawley Turner explore the ethical and practical challenges of using AI tools in writing lessons. They unpack how AI works and offer strategies that nurture student thinking, creativity, and academic honesty. Learn how to support student agency and authentic writing in an AI-driven world.

Grades 6–12 writing teachers will use this book to: Better understand the design and function of various genAI writing tools, Preserve and enhance student writers' creative agency with targeted genAI assistance, Define acceptable, academically honest uses of genAI that prepare students for writing, Examine genAI's ability to inform students' craft of persuasive or argumentative writing, Explore how genAI can help students develop and create engaging narrative prose.

Contents

Introduction: Being and Becoming Writing Teachers in an Age of Generative AI

Chapter 1: Understanding GenAI, Addressing Concerns, and Exploring the Technology Behind the Tools

Chapter 2: Using Frames for Thinking About GenAI in the Writing Classroom

Chapter 3: Developing Writers' Agency and a Sense of Curiosity With GenAI

Chapter 4: Using GenAI to Examine and Begin Writing Tasks

Chapter 5: Engaging With GenAI for Argument Writing

Chapter 6: Engaging With GenAI for Narrative Writing

Chapter 7: Empowering Writers' Agency in the Age of GenAI

Epilogue

Appendix: Annotated List of GenAI Tools

References

Index