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Preparing for a new paradigm: A mixed-methods study of student experience in on-site, hybrid, and online writing courses 为新范式做准备：现场、混合和在线写作课程中学生体验的混合方法研究

Computers and Composition Pub Date : 2024-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102904

Daniel Libertz, Kamal Belmihoub, Constantin Schreiber, Lisa Blankenship

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Integrating generative AI into digital multimodal composition: A study of multicultural second-language classrooms 将生成式人工智能整合到数字多模态作文中：多元文化第二语言课堂研究

Computers and Composition Pub Date : 2024-11-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102895

Chin-Hsi Lin , Keyi Zhou , Lanqing Li , Lanfang Sun

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Purposeful remixing with generative AI: Constructing designer voice in multimodal composing 有目的的混音与生成人工智能：在多模态作曲中构建设计师的声音

Computers and Composition Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102893

Xiao Tan , Wei Xu , Chaoran Wang

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Student use of generative AI as a composing process supplement: Concerns for intellectual property and academic honesty 学生使用生成式人工智能作为写作过程的补充：对知识产权和学术诚信的关注

Computers and Composition Pub Date : 2024-11-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102894

Emma Kostopolus

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A rhetorical consideration of the {XE “embedded”} index 对{XE "嵌入式"}索引的修辞学思考

Computers and Composition Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102887

J.A.T. Smith

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Transformative transmediation: Eliciting student self-evaluation of academic writing through the video essay assignment 转型中介：通过视频论文作业激发学生对学术写作的自我评价

Computers and Composition Pub Date : 2024-11-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102891

Angela Frattarola , Hyejeong Ahn , Ian Dixon

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Letter from the Editor 编辑来信

Computers and Composition Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102890

Kristine L. Blair

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Generosity in computers and writing: Doing what Gail, Halcyon, Johndan, and Bill Taught Us 电脑和写作中的慷慨：践行盖尔、哈尔西恩、约翰丹和比尔的教诲

Computers and Composition Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102889

Gavin P. Johnson , Charles Woods , Laura L. Allen , Amber Buck , Ashanka Kumari , James P. Purdy , Jennifer Sano-Franchini , Jason Tham

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“Wayfinding” through the AI wilderness: Mapping rhetorics of ChatGPT prompt writing on X (formerly Twitter) to promote critical AI literacies 在人工智能荒野中 "寻路"：绘制 X（原 Twitter）上 ChatGPT 提示语的写作修辞，促进批判性人工智能素养的提高

Computers and Composition Pub Date : 2024-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102882

Anuj Gupta, Ann Shivers-McNair

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Exploring the interaction among writing fluency, writing processes, and external resource access in second language writing assessment 探索第二语言写作评估中写作流畅性、写作过程和外部资源获取之间的相互作用

Computers and Composition Pub Date : 2024-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102888

Kerry Pusey, Yuko Goto Butler

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