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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 13h

Something that has troubled me over and over in these AI years is how we seem to need to redraw every line to accommodate AI. It is possible for writing to have value for thinking and for oral exams and discussions to have value. We don't need to remake the world to eliminate writing/5

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 13h

Many thoughts about the argument in this piece but one is that citing a few studies to say that there is little evidence that "we discover what we think in the act of writing" contradicts everything I saw in 26 years of teaching college writing. Of course not the only we figure out what we think/1

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 7h

But also, you know where colleges can encourage valuable critical thinking through conversation? Writing Centers. The path to figuring out what you think on paper can and should involve conversation, and investing in those conversations is a great way forward in this AI all the time moment.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 9h

I've been traveling today, but I understand we've been talking about to do lists and meal prep services and in More Than Words, I just so happen to use meal prep services as an example of how something that seems like it could be useful, doesn't help us build capacity in the long run.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 15h

I mean, not only compelling on the merits, but this is legal writing at its finest. (CC: @janerosenzweig.bsky.social @biblioracle.bsky.social)

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

From Serena Jampel, one of the writing tutors I worked with at Harvard on the difference between the human tutor and AI and how a writing tutor can help a student find their voice. Lots of wisdom and also this truth: "the more you use it, the more you use it" www.harvardmagazine.com/commentary/h...

And that was another remarkable feature of the Writing Center. Sometimes students would resist my feedback, insisting that their structure would make sense once they added a bit more reasoning. In doing so, they were often pushed to articulate their thinking more clearly, and to affirm their confidence in their position.

An LLM cannot do that, because it does not have its own opinions or thoughts. It is only trained to engage the user: the more you use it, the more you use it. That’s actually the antithesis of writing instruction, which aims to cultivate independent thought.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"But Cameron says he “wouldn’t pay $1000” for a degree in which he was marked with AI – and doesn’t think many of his cohort would be happy with the prospect. “I would be irate,” he says. “I would be absolutely bloody incensed."

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As more Australian universities use AI to mark students’ work, is it creating a ‘slop-cycle’?

Educational institutions find themselves suddenly confronted with a fork in the road

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

at least this one is clear about what we are optimizing for

AI image of Genghis Khan with text that says "Youshould be spending your time conquering the world,"

Genghis Khan AI image and text that says "So learn on the go with your phone, wherever you are"

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I always found it interesting that Bezos required Amazon staff to write 6-page memos for meetings and then set aside time in those meetings for people to read the memos. I was curious how that has fared in the AI era and I guess it has not fared well. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

“Writing is thinking,” said one veteran. “That was the whole point of Amazon’s writing culture. I can’t tell you how many times I changed my mind when writing a narrative. And even when I didn’t, my arguments were more precise for having written them down. Now we have chatbots writing six-pagers to be summarised by other chatbots.”

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Anything worth remembering came from a person who did not know where she or he was going until arriving. No shortcut gets you there: the process leaves a trace"

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another reflection on AI & writing at Harvard, from a former writing tutor trained by @janerosenzweig.bsky.social “AI trains us, more than anything, to parrot the AI voice. I’d rather we teach students how to find their own.” Well said! www.harvardmagazine.com/commentary/h...

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I Used to Think AI Could Make Me a Better Writer | Harvard Magazine

A former Harvard College writing tutor changes her mind on LLMs.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So Oxford gets these materials digitized and OpenAI gets them as training data.

By June 2025, 125,000 images scanned from historical dissertations had been shared with OpenAI from the Bodleian collection, including PhD theses from European and American universities written in the 19th and 20th centuries. Other texts scanned include a rare collection of 10,000 16th-century “broadside ballads” containing song lyrics and musical notes that were once circulated on Tudor street corners. Staff have also discussed digitising of 18th-century Irish state papers, the private letters of Irish novelist Marie Edgeworth, and Dorothy Hodgkin’s penicillin notebooks.

The OpenAI contract with Oxford also raises the prospect of the mass digitisation of the Bodleian’s collection consisting of 23m items. The minutes also discussed the creation of an “Ask the Bod” chatbot.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So Oxford gets these materials digitized and OpenAI gets them as training data.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don’t mean this as a criticism of this piece, but this was obvious from the start. If you don’t know anything, AI is a substitute, not a tool. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Has Made Me a Better Doctor. It’s Made Med Students Worse.

I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do — and less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Writing centers should be championed, not dissolved... Colleges are racing to outspend each other with new AI-focused programming. But individualized, human support for student learning should not be sacrificed on the altar of these ambitions." (by Lizzie Hutton, Miami U Ohio's WC director)

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AI makes college writing centers more important, not less | Opinion

Opinion: AI can generate words. College students still need to learn how to write.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Much wisdom in this thread, including the idea that instead of talking about being pro or anti AI, we should be talking about what is pro learning. This is what has motivated all of my work on writing and AI: Start with what it is that we actually want students to experience/become/be able to do.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Students can tell when every standard isn't really a standard but a slippery thing that we redefine for convenience and if things don't matter to us, how can we expect them to matter to our students?

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Students can tell when every standard isn't really a standard but a slippery thing that we redefine for convenience and if things don't matter to us, how can we expect them to matter to our students?

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In my first-year college writing course about AI, I made a chatbot that could help students "stress test" their arguments by providing potential counterarguments. The class was about AI so it made sense to try it. It wasn't bad at the task but when my students saw that it didn't give answers and /1

Researchers from the University of Toronto followed students in 18 Tennessee middle schools for two years, from 2024 to 2026. Almost all the students tried Khanmigo at first. And many tried to get the AI assistant to spit out the answer. But when Khanmigo refused and instead asked questions or offered hints, students largely stopped using it.

“We observe how students actually used the AI tutor, and the answer is: not much,” Philip Oreopoulos and Nina Low, the researchers, wrote in their draft paper, circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research in August. “Seeking help with one’s own confusion remained a choice, and most students declined it most of the time.”

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

all of this

AI makes college writing centers more important, not less | Opinion
Artificial intelligence makes it easier for students to outsource writing and thinking. Colleges need to invest more in human relationships that teach students how to develop ideas of their own.
Lizzie Hutton
Opinion contributor
Sept. 23, 2026, 12:01 a.m. ET
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Students look at the ChatGPT app on their phones after an artificial intelligence (AI) class at the College Jean Mace in Mulhouse, on March 26, 2026. At a middle school in Mulhouse, artificial intelligence (AI) has been integrated into the classroom as part of an experiment aimed at helping students become comfortable with tools that many teenagers already use. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP via Getty Images)

A special crisis is gripping higher education. In a recent Lumina-Gallup survey of almost 4,000 college students, more than half reported using AI to help with coursework, even when its use had been explicitly prohibited.

We can fairly assume, too, that these survey takers are underreporting. On the ground, in college classrooms, the cheating feels almost endemic. AI use is poisoning assignments and exams and longstanding beliefs in honor codes.

Nor is such cheating simply a moral problem; at scale, it becomes a learning problem. Research shows that cognitive offloading to AI significantly erodes crucial critical-thinking skills. When students don’t think for themselves, using their own judgment as they write, read and comb through research, they deny themselves the chance to internalize new knowledge and assimilate new practices.

Such AI-outsourcing has also engendered a serious teaching problem. Most faculty know the benefits of student writing are real; many nonetheless drastically shrink their writing assignments, if they still assign writing at all. If tides of cheating are on the rise, it can seem only right to assume that the only student work that counts is what faculty can personally surveil. Timed, in-class, blu…

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cincinnati.com

AI makes college writing centers more important, not less | Opinion

Opinion: AI can generate words. College students still need to learn how to write.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is anecdata-I know there have been chatbot experiments with different results. But something I keep coming back to is that when the choice is between spending the same amount of time with a human who is really good at helping and spending it with a bot, my students chose the human. But if the/3

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes to all of this--and especially this, right now. "Resources must be put into the labor of teaching and learning to write so that the scale of interaction is appropriate to our goals of helping individuals learn to think and express themselves to the world through writing."

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A student at a small New England liberal arts college told me that one of the readers for her senior thesis gave her AI-generated feedback that was very obviously AI-generated and this didn't make her wonder why she should do the work but was incredibly disappointing and disillusioning.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We need to do better by these high school students, who are being offered generative AI everywhere they turn while also being told not to use it, while also not even getting the "bare minimum" of discussion about how LLMs work, why the school has the policies it has, etc.

text that says "require a more expansive curriculum on AI and its problems. Anything would be helpful. Even an assembly would be helpful because people do not know anything about what AI does to them, or the environment. This is a BARE MINIMUM"

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If anyone (including @jeffsharlet.bsky.social) has students writing about their relationship to AI/how it's shaping their education, please let them know I'd be very interested in publishing their reflections in theimportantwork.substack.com. Tell them 3000+ teachers want to hear what they think!

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The Important Work | Jane Rosenzweig | Substack

Teaching Writing in the Age of AI. Click to read The Important Work, by Jane Rosenzweig, a Substack publication.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Important Work is back! Today Helen Choi writes about asking her students to estimate their p(doom): "What I hope to see— no matter their approach— is a challenge to the idea that “AI is inevitable” and that there’s nothing they can do about it but surrender."

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Why I ask my students if they think AI will kill us all

And why one of them said, “My p(doom) is that this is bullshit.”

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So of course I uploaded a PDF of one of my Globe articles and I guess if you don't pay, you get a pared down version with no video and audio but also we are in trouble if students actually use this tool to take a piece that's less than 1000 words and divide it into chapters.

screen shot of ScrollED page that says "The Rise of AI Writing" Jane Rosenzweig discusses how AI is nearing the capability to write for us, raising concernsa bout its impact on thinking and creativity. Published in the Boston globe ideas section, her article warns against outsourcing writing to machines."

Chapter 2: AI's impact on Student Writing. The story explores the implications of AI in academic writing. A teacher considers the ease with which AI, like GPT-3 can generate student papers, raising concerns about the loss of writing skills and the lack of personal voice.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

After an eventful summer hiatus, The Important Work is back with new posts starting tomorrow! If you don't already subscribe, there's still time to sign up to receive tomorrow's post by Helen Choi about p(doom) and what happens when students are asked to write about whether AI will kill us all.

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The Important Work | Jane Rosenzweig | Substack

Teaching Writing in the Age of AI. Click to read The Important Work, by Jane Rosenzweig, a Substack publication.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I find this part of the FAQ fascinating.

Can I turn off the AI Companion completely?

Not at this time.

Currently, there is no option to disable the AI Companion entirely. However, Wiley is continually reviewing user feedback and making improvements to the experience.

The AI Companion's display and behaviour are being refined to:

Improve readability
Reduce interruptions while reading
Give users more control over how they interact with the feature

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I find this part of the FAQ fascinating.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I honestly don’t believe that rogue AI is going to kill us all, but if we are not mindful about cultivating a life of experience and meaning, we may allow AI’s presence to prevent us from living." (Invite @biblioracle.bsky.social to talk to your students-mine were very inspired when he visited us!)

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The problems these grading machines solve: grading fast, more, and cheap, are quite different from the problems writing instructors, writing tutors, writing center solve: developing ideas, human conversation, learning.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

different meaning of "invest in your writing" than I had in mind

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Students have told me they don’t feel free to dissent from courses that insist on AI work, or to be candid about their awareness of how absolutely widespread cheating is. Many feel we’re operating on a “don’t ask, don’t tell” system.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

different meaning of "invest in your writing" than I had in mind

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

At my workshop for the wonderful Public AI Summit today, I asked participants why they teach writing. If we know why we're doing something, we can then ask "to what (writing) problem is AI the solution?" There is no AI replacement for thoughtful teachers.

A white board of sticky notes that answer the question "what are you trying to do when you teach/assign writing"?

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lots of $$ spent on workshops offered to teach faculty how to use AI but what we need: 1. workshop on all the choices that are being made every day about how AI is used/here to stay; 2. workshop on why students cheat and relationship to grades/incentives; 3. workshop on how you cannot "always tell"

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Great thread that makes me want to reshare the assignment I had my students do to understand the debate over whether AI will "kill us all." A good reason to write papers is...to do some critical thinking. Grateful that @vauhinivara.bsky.social has laid this out. bsky.app/profile/jane...

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In my writing course "To What Problem is AI the Solution?" I always assigned the 2023 pause letter from the Future of Life Institute, signed by most of the people building AI and the rebuttal from the authors of the Stochastic Parrots article. Students wanted to weigh in on "who was right" but /1

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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People read the "AI WILL KILL US" narrative as involving a brave whistleblower revealing that AI researchers believe AI will kill us all — suggesting that they know something we don't, having worked on the technology. AI CEOs had to respond. As did politicians from Trump to Sanders. That's false.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Here's what I like about this: Instead of answering the question, what should we do about AI, these outcomes answer the question, what do we want our students to be able to do? Yes, implementation has new challenges now because of AI. And in some fields, what we want our students to be able to do/1

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