IWCA GenAI Task Force

Over the summer, IWCA charged a task force on generative AI that mirrors and expands the work of the  MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI . Although joint task force member Sarah Z Johnson and then IWCA president Sherry Wynn Perdue helped craft the newly-released  Working Paper 3: Fostering a Culture of AI Literacies  as a part of an NEH grant funded initiative, they quickly realized that writing center professionals were operating in spaces that require more specific guidance. The creation of this task force has several goals, but primary among them is that we provide guidance and support to writing center practitioners in the United States and worldwide. The task force has met to establish priorities, develop and disseminate a survey, conduct listening sessions, and establish a timeline for further data collection and subsequent white papers on Generative AI. So far, we have collected preliminary data from a survey and a series of focus groups. Moreover, we are quite pleased