{"id":5639,"date":"2026-01-13T10:31:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2026-01-13T16:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:24:30","slug":"ai-writing-in-your-course-what-do-i-do-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/2026\/01\/13\/ai-writing-in-your-course-what-do-i-do-now\/","title":{"rendered":"AI &amp; writing in your course: What do I do now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Liz Delf, CTL AI in Teaching and Learning Fellow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"825\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1441\/files\/2023\/08\/crop-taiki-ishikawa-cXjFsX5UvGw-unsplash-scaled.jpeg?resize=2560%2C825&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Colorful laptop keyboard\" class=\"wp-image-3186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1441\/files\/2023\/08\/crop-taiki-ishikawa-cXjFsX5UvGw-unsplash-scaled.jpeg?w=2560&amp;ssl=1 2560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1441\/files\/2023\/08\/crop-taiki-ishikawa-cXjFsX5UvGw-unsplash-scaled.jpeg?resize=300%2C97&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1441\/files\/2023\/08\/crop-taiki-ishikawa-cXjFsX5UvGw-unsplash-scaled.jpeg?resize=1024%2C330&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1441\/files\/2023\/08\/crop-taiki-ishikawa-cXjFsX5UvGw-unsplash-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C247&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1441\/files\/2023\/08\/crop-taiki-ishikawa-cXjFsX5UvGw-unsplash-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C495&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1441\/files\/2023\/08\/crop-taiki-ishikawa-cXjFsX5UvGw-unsplash-scaled.jpeg?resize=2048%2C660&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Quick Guide for Faculty<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why we still want students to write<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Even in the age of AI, writing is a key mode of learning that supports inquiry, critical thinking, rhetorical awareness, cognitive sharpening, expertise building, and reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Four approaches to AI &amp; writing<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Use this framework to engage strategically with AI in your writing assignments. Choose an approach based on your assignment goals and disciplinary context.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Build on what works<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Lean into best practices established before AI:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Emphasize writing as a mode of learning and inquiry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Build in process steps: proposals, drafts, revision, reflections<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Consider <a href=\"https:\/\/barnard.edu\/labor-based-grading\">labor-based<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alfiekohn.org\/article\/case-grades\/\">ungrading<\/a> approaches<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clarify expectations with guidelines and rubrics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Align expectations with your discipline<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Make small changes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Adjust assignments to reduce student reliance on AI:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Shift to <a href=\"https:\/\/writing.georgetown.edu\/resources\/resources-for-low-stakes-writing\/\">low-stakes writing assignments<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reduce page length or number of assignments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Try <a href=\"https:\/\/writing.georgetown.edu\/resources\/assigning-and-assessing-multimodal-projects\/\">multimodal assignments<\/a> or group work<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Emphasize personal or local\/campus knowledge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lean into <a href=\"https:\/\/citl.indiana.edu\/teaching-resources\/assessing-student-learning\/authentic-assessment\/index.html\">authentic assignments<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Teach when and how to disclose AI use and model it yourself<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Integrate AI purposefully<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Use AI for scaffolding while students do the critical thinking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Leverage AI for brainstorming or outlining<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use AI to generate counterarguments, then students write rebuttals in their own voice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Incorporate AI as a feedback step and ask students to reflect critically<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Invite students to use AI to support writing and include a reflection on their AI use<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. Make AI the subject<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Interrogate AI output to build critical literacy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Critique AI responses about questions in your field (fact-check for accuracy, nuance, gaps, bias, and simplifications)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Generate AI responses on controversial topics in your field, then have students identify what viewpoints are centered, marginalized, or absent<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prompt AI to generate examples of a genre in your discipline, analyze output as a class before having students create their own version<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key principle<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Goal: keep students doing the critical thinking, judgment, and inquiry that writing supports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Sign up now to participate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/osuteaching\/2025\/12\/31\/connect-and-learn-in-the-winter-26-ai-book-club\/\">Winter 2026 AI Book Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/ai.oregonstate.edu\/events\">AI+Events<\/a> for a full schedule of upcoming OSU AI workshops, speakers and gatherings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1441\/files\/2025\/09\/Liz_Delf.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1441\/files\/2025\/09\/Liz_Delf.jpg?resize=220%2C220&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Photo of Liz Delf\" class=\"wp-image-5269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1441\/files\/2025\/09\/Liz_Delf.jpg?w=220&amp;ssl=1 220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1441\/files\/2025\/09\/Liz_Delf.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>About the author:<\/em> <strong>Liz Delf<\/strong> is a CTL AI Faculty Fellow (in partnership with the <a href=\"https:\/\/ailiteracycenter.oregonstate.edu\/\">AI Literacy Center<\/a>) and Senior Instructor II in the OSU School of Writing, Literature, and Film. She approaches AI integration by emphasizing process over product and designing assignments that encourage students to use AI as a thinking partner rather than a replacement for critical analysis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Top image by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@fl__q\">Taiki Ishikawa<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Liz Delf, CTL AI in Teaching and Learning Fellow A Quick Guide for Faculty Why we still want students to write Even in the age of AI, writing is a key mode of learning that supports inquiry, critical thinking, rhetorical awareness, cognitive sharpening, expertise building, and reflection. 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