Summer Writing Pedagogy Institute – May 27-28, 2025.

Registration is now open for the Center for Writing Excellence’s two-day summer institute – “Designing AI-Enhanced Writing Assignments & Developing Students’ AI Critical Literacies” – on Tuesday, May 27 and Wednesday, May 28, 9:00am-3:30pm in Belk Pavilion 208. There is a $500 stipend for full attendance.

Open to faculty in full-time ongoing positions and staff who teach writing in their programs, this will be a hands-on workshop meant to guide you through developing policies and assignments for ethically and responsibly teaching writing with AI. Breakfast, lunch, coffee/tea, and snacks will be provided. Please see a more detailed description below.

The registration deadline is May 18; space is limited. If you participated in last year’s CWE summer AI Institute on May 29, 2024, you are invited to apply again. However, if more applicants apply than we can accommodate, preference will be given to first-time participants. We will inform you of acceptance by May 20.

Designing AI-Enhanced Writing Assignments & Developing Students’ AI Critical Literacies

We’ll start this workshop with an overview of best practices in writing instruction, oriented toward developing students’ functional, critical, and rhetorical AI literacies through the teaching of AI-enhanced writing assignments. We will review some generative text, image, and video AIs, discuss their implications for writing instruction across the disciplines, and share examples of AI-enhanced writing assignments. We will also work on  assignment policies for AI-enhanced writing assignments and discuss writing assignments that utilize AI at different stages of the writing process (including invention, researching, outlining, revision, peer response, proofreading, and assessment of writing). Over both days, participants will have focused time to work on a writing assignment and assessment and to get feedback from peers and from the Writing Across the University Director (Dr. Paula Rosinski) and Writing Center Director (Dr. Julia Bleakney). Please bring your laptop and any other materials you may need to design your writing assignments, as this will be a working session.

Dates: Tuesday, May 27 & Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Time: 9:00am-3:30pm
Location: Belk Pavilion Room 208; Breakfast, lunch, coffee/tea, and snacks will be provided.

Eligibility: Open to faculty in full-time ongoing positions and staff who teach writing in their programs.
Stipend: $500 for full attendance
Registration deadline: May 18

Please note that space is limited; you will be informed of your acceptance by May 20 and asked to confirm your attendance a few days in advance of the workshop.

Participant quotes

  •  “I’ve never been a rubric/evaluation criteria person – now I will be!”
  •  “Peer-feedback is very helpful, especially those from people with different backgrounds.”
  • “I really liked thinking about ways to make the transfer of knowledge explicit.”
  • “I realized that the evaluation tools I used in the past were NOT good!”
  • “Getting collaborative feedback from other participants was THE MOST HELPFUL!”
  • “I learned quite a bit and I really feel like I’m walking away with actionable items.”
  • “I learned so much about rubrics, peer-feedback and making assignments. I didn’t realize how useful it is to have somebody from outside the discipline read over assignment directions.”
  • “Learned a lot about Microsoft Word’s hidden power! Citations!”