We invite colleagues and students to read UWP\u2019s 2025 Working Statement on Teaching & Writing in the Context of Large Language Models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the emergence of LLMs in late 2022, college faculty\u2014especially those who teach writing\u2014have had to grapple with a new and sometimes disorienting set of questions. One that is particularly pressing is, how should we talk with students about writing now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our starting place is to name for students what we know: writing is an intellectual and social practice. In other words, writing is a way to think, question, and learn; it is also a way to connect with others and make things happen in the world. During the composing process, thinking emerges, clarifies, and expands. Ethical concerns, such as how we represent the work of others and who we are writing for, are embedded in these practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Helping students understand and practice writing in this way means calling their careful attention to the texts we read, the languages we speak, and the experience and implications of our writing tools and environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LLMs are ubiquitous, and we need to guide students toward a critical, thoughtful approach to what they are as well as if, when, why, and how to use them. We need to help students see that LLMs generate text; they do not write. The process of writing is the process of thinking and learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Further, it’s important for students to understand the ethical concerns embedded in LLMs, alongside these platforms\u2019 powerful potential: digital privacy, intellectual theft, linguistic hegemony, labor exploitation, and environmental degradation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At JHU we teach writing with, without, and about LLMs. Each approach has its place. Each also requires its metanarrative: why are we, as a class, approaching this writing project in this way? What do we hope to learn? Regardless of the parameters of the assignment, the principles of academic integrity apply; students should never represent AI-generated text as their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Simply put, there is no substitute for the work of writing and its benefits for the writer and their readers: drawing on what we know, choosing our words, creating our ideas, and building relationships with readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every college student deserves to learn and experience the power and pleasure of writing. In the emerging age of LLMs and AI, higher education\u2019s shared responsibility to student writing persists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last updated July 8, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Please note: We consider this, like most statements of this sort, to be a living document and work-in-progress. AI and LLMs are the focus of UWP faculty development for 25-26, and we’ll revise as needed to reflect what we learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since the emergence of LLMs in late 2022, college faculty\u2014especially those who teach writing\u2014have had to grapple with a new and sometimes disorienting set of questions. One that is particularly pressing is, how should we talk with students about writing now? Our starting place is to name for students what we know: writing is an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":433,"featured_media":0,"parent":101,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3535","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3546,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3535\/revisions\/3546"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/writing-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}