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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Martin,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">the lists of principles you have distilled/rewritten raise a number of problems related to definitions and assumptions. For example, aligning with the enumerated points below:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><b>what does “personally writing”</b> mean in the contemporary era of collaborative authorship, which has long been the norm in sci/tech fields, and
increasingly in social sciences and humanities (see my work with Theresa Lillis from 2004-2023 on multilingual scholars writing for publication, which overwhelmingly for participating scholars in education and psychology, meant co-authoring, often with multiple
partners.) So “personally writing” implies to me, “human-only writing”.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">How does writing studies “give authors an understanding of the broad purposes and uses in of writing in the world”? Many people simply learn to write
the specific genres that are needed in their contexts/workplaces—this is not a guarantee that they transfer that knowledge to other contexts;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">What does “personally writing studies as a discipline” mean—as an academic discipline? As a personal practice that involves discipline?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I would agree with the original text’s position that we should not adopt punitive approaches to UNINTENDED plagiarism—this seems like a separate topic
than AI use. How plagiarism is defined, identified, and handled institutionally varies widely across and within institutions<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I think the phrase “writing studies” in the original document indexes the current term for rhetoric/composition studies, which broadens to include the
considerable work in other, related fields, like the ones I mentioned above—writing studies is possibly the most comprehensive and inclusive term to encompass all of us who teach writing in some way/institutional corner in higher education.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Unfortunately, many scholars do not know, and would not actually have time to learn “the whole history of writing conventions,” which in any case seems
unnecessary to help students learn the practices of current writing conventions for the particular texts/genres/disciplines they are writing for.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">And I would heartily disagree that writing teachers are “well poised” on this issue—if anything, there are many Luddite positions floating around.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Jumping to 10—I think that train has left the station. Students are already using AI at all levels. We as their teachers need to be prepared to engage with them on how they are using it, what are the ethical
considerations, including environmental, how to document and critique their use of AI, and how to distinguish what they learn from AI from what they learn in our courses and elsewhere through old-fashioned means. Also, let’s please distinguish between undergraduate
and graduate writing when we talk about “college courses”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">MJ Curry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Mary Jane Curry, PhD (she/her/hers)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Emerita Professor of Teaching and Curriculum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Warner Graduate School of Education & Human Development<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">University of Rochester<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://rochester.zoom.us/my/mjcurry"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://rochester.zoom.us/my/mjcurry</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Director, Warner Writing Support Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Co-editor, Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation book series, Multilingual Matters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Academic writing/publishing/career coach and consultant:
<a href="http://www.mjcurry.co"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.mjcurry.co</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Book in</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> process:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Curry, M.J. <i>Class notes: A Pittsburgh education</i><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Edling <edling-bounces@lists.mail.umbc.edu> on behalf of "Martin P.J. Edwardes via Edling" <edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Educational Linguistics List <edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, July 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Educational Linguistics List <edling@lists.mail.umbc.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"Martin P.J. Edwardes" <martin.edwardes@btopenworld.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXT] Re: [Edling] Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>I agree with the principles involved in this initiative. However, I would rephrase the ten premises as follows, to assist comprehension.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>1. By personally writing studies, teacher-scholars gain an understanding of the relationship between language, power, and persuasion. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>2. By personally writing studies, teacher-scholars gain an understanding of the broad purposes and uses of writing in the world. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>3. Personally writing studies as a discipline maintains the personal aspect of writing and encourages new language practices, both of which are suppressed by GenAI.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>4. Personally writing studies as a discipline reduces the need for punitive approaches to unintended plagiarism and encourages fairer plagiarism surveillance. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>5. Personally writing studies as a discipline encourages explicitly argued, ideologically fair approaches to writing; technologies, including GenAI, often rely on ideologically non-neutral arguments which are not made explicit. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>6. Personally writing studies as a discipline relies on understanding the whole history of writing conventions to provide important context. GenAI often relies on internalised and anodyne writing conventions which do not themselves evolve. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>7. Writing teachers are well-poised to understand the range of writing issues that GenAI introduces into a text. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>8. As well as the writing issues, writing teachers need to understand the rhetorical and economic contexts surrounding GenAI, including the various ways that GenAI is promoted and marketed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>9. All technology users need to consider the environmental impacts of using digital technologies that rely on massive datasets, such as GenAI.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>10. Refusal to publish texts produced with GenAI is a principled, pragmatic and necessary response to the incursion of GenAI technologies in college writing courses.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>I hope this helps.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Martin P.J. Edwardes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>BSc MA PhD, FRAI AKC<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies<br>
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This guide positions refusal as a disciplinary and principled response to the emergence of Generative AI (GenAI)3 technologies in writing studies. We created this guide to add to ongoing efforts to think through approaches for responding to GenAI in writing
studies, and in higher education more broadly. When we say GenAI “refusal,” we are talking about the range of ways that individuals and/or groups consciously and intentionally choose to refuse GenAI use, when and where we are able to do so...To situate refusal
as a disciplinary position, we offer ten premises that ground refusal as a disciplinary response to GenAI technologies.<br>
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