{"title":"Composing with generative AI on digital advertising platforms","authors":"Daniel L. Hocutt","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102829","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study introduces online advertising platforms as digital composing tools where persuasive rhetoric encourages users to follow links and take action on landing pages. It frames these platforms as digital spaces where human actors work alongside non-human AI agents (Duin & Pedersen, 2021 & 2023) and where rhetorical agency emerges through the activity of machine learning and artificial intelligence. It theorizes a (human) user-centered approach to composing digital ads in digital advertising platforms built around Walton, Moore & Jones’ (2019) framework of positionality, position, and power. It provides guidance for technical and professional writers in placing human users at the center of an abstracted, algorithm-driven partnership where generative AI appears poised to wrest power from both composers and users.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 102829"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755461524000057/pdfft?md5=603042e59f8b7e4ce26eedc569bb33be&pid=1-s2.0-S8755461524000057-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139653466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rhetorically training students to generate with AI: Social justice applications for AI as audience","authors":"Gabriel Lorenzo Aguilar","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2024.102828","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Compositionists can train students to rhetorically approach AI as a writing assistant—a metaphor that can help students maintain authority in dialogue with AI. Such an approach allows students to control the input and output from generative AI. Compositionists can teach students how to input ethical information and recognize harmful output. The students are then encouraged to converse with the AI in dialogue, sending messages back and forth until the AI generates writing that is acceptable in ethics and content. This article provides a social justice heuristic for compositions to follow in their training of students.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"71 ","pages":"Article 102828"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755461524000045/pdfft?md5=ee0815efd4b8f8649fb20e4794f922b4&pid=1-s2.0-S8755461524000045-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139505490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles – Part 1","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102809","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 102809"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755461523000592/pdfft?md5=0b6948004be7bf0de444c53dc103ff2e&pid=1-s2.0-S8755461523000592-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138422879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles – part 3","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102811","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 102811"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755461523000610/pdfft?md5=f14d89e6e56314b909a71cbb23b5231e&pid=1-s2.0-S8755461523000610-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138422888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles – Part 2","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102810","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 102810"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S8755461523000609/pdfft?md5=60634c1a68f0c51dcaa2d10cb5016e2b&pid=1-s2.0-S8755461523000609-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138422887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Computers and Composition at 40: A retrospective","authors":"Kristine L. Blair","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102807","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 102807"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92100494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letter from the Editor","authors":"Kristine L. Blair","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102808","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 102808"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91959443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abram D. Anders , Amy Walton , Ananda Astrini Muhammad , Caroliena Cabada , Natalie Deam , Emily Dux Speltz , Ryan Everett , Agata Guskaroska , Jenna Haffner , Colin Payton
{"title":"Using virtual design sprints to promote inclusive collaboration in composition programs","authors":"Abram D. Anders , Amy Walton , Ananda Astrini Muhammad , Caroliena Cabada , Natalie Deam , Emily Dux Speltz , Ryan Everett , Agata Guskaroska , Jenna Haffner , Colin Payton","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102806","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Writing researchers, teachers, and writing program administrators face significant challenges in promoting inclusive collaboration that brings together diverse perspectives without overburdening vulnerable stakeholders. This article reports on a case study in which a virtual design sprint was used to facilitate inclusive collaboration for a human-centered design project focused on redesigning a graduate teaching assistant mentoring program. The virtual design sprint was conducted over one week by a transdisciplinary team, including writing program administrators and graduate teaching assistant mentors and mentees. By providing a highly structured approach to intensive collaboration, the virtual design sprint enabled efficient integration of diverse perspectives while minimizing demands on participants. Furthermore, it helped the design team produce promising solutions aligned with their experiences and needs. Findings suggest virtual design sprints offer an effective method for inclusive collaboration that can be adapted to promote inclusivity through a wide range of writing program, writing instruction, and writing research activities. The structured collaborative process allows teams to rapidly develop empathy, ideate, prototype, and test solutions using human-centered design methods and develop solutions that are beneficial for diverse program stakeholders.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 102806"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92100495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing (GPACW): The history of a cornerstone regional conference and scholarly network for field development, 1997–2019","authors":"Jason Tham, Jack Hennes","doi":"10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102804","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>This study provides an account of the development of computers and writing via the history of a regional conference, fondly known as the Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing (GPACW). We employ oral history and archival study methods to uncover the influence of grassroot organizing efforts in the greater scheme of computers and writing's maturity as a field. We then discuss the reasons rhetoric and writing scholars need to pay attention to local networks that could shape the trajectories of sub-fields in the discipline. This project offers a timeline about the field of computers and writing and documents important </span>narratives regarding the growing field.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":35773,"journal":{"name":"Computers and Composition","volume":"70 ","pages":"Article 102804"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92100496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}