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I'm a college writing professor. Here's what AI still can't do

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In the past few years , AI chatbots have become a multi-billion dollar industry, hailed by some administrators as the future of learning.

It has felt particularly threatening to the subject of writing, where many students struggle.

But paradoxically, the AI invasion hasn’t convinced me that learning to write well is about to become obsolete.

College writing has never been about a finished product; writing is thinking, and I want to see them think on the page.

Using AI for brainstorming and pre-writing was okay. Putting assignment prompts into a chatbot and asking for a completed essay was not.

Teaching students to think remains as important as ever.

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80

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36

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informal

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English

Language complexity

43

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long-living

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