WAC Clearinghouse Repository Materials for AI

Ryan J. Dippre
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Associate Professor of English and the Director of College Composition at the University of Maine
MCELA Executive Board Member

The WAC Clearinghouse is one of the key publication venues in the field of rhetoric and composition/writing studies.  It contains hundreds of books, thousands of articles, and a massive repository of resources for the teaching of writing—all open-access!  In response to the rise of generative AI programs over the past couple of years, the Clearinghouse has developed several resources that teachers may find helpful.
 
TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies, edited by Annette Vee, Tim Laquintano, and Carly Schnitzler (2023), provides over thirty undergraduate-level assignments to help students think through AI.  Another repository, TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments, provides additional updates and addendums from throughout 2024.  Additionally, Anna Mills has curated a set of resources for teachers in AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry. 
 
Generative AI is a difficult topic to address, and—to make matters more complicated—the capabilities of Generative AI seem to be constantly changing as new updates and programs emerge.  These resources give teachers a few places to take on this challenging (and ever-changing task).