Ana Castellon and Casey Manogue, both instructors for the UC Davis Writing Center, were approached by the Peer & AI Review + Reflection, or PAIRR, research team to collect data in their classrooms. Over the course of one quarter, they and other participating instructors implemented the PAIRR curriculum. Students discussed readings about AI and language equity, completed peer and AI reviews of their drafts, compared the feedback, and decided which recommendations to incorporate into their final work.

From the way we write to the way we socialize and even the way we think, we are greatly influenced by our changing technologies. This month we look at books by scholars from Science and Technology Studies, the Department of Cinema and Digital Media, the Department of English and the University Writing Program.

Swarms, Viral Writing, and the Local examines the social and rhetorical dynamics around emerging writing technologies. Carl Whithaus argues that these dynamics work across networked publics as patterns of behavior and ways of interacting through and with multimodal texts.

A collaborative project led by UC Davis, working with four California Community Colleges and three California State University campuses, has won a $1.5 million grant to help address equity gaps in writing support and AI literacy.