Writing Centers and AI: Generating Early Conversations
Edited by Elisabeth H. Buck and Joshua Botvin
Copy edited by Sam Maloney. Designed by Mike Palmquist.
The landscape of higher education has been forever changed by the proliferation of AI-powered large language models. Machine-generated text has provided new opportunities for academic integrity violations, the death of critical thought, and the end to the humanities at large—or, at least, that’s what we’re being told.
The editors and contributors to Writing Centers and AI: Generating Early Conversations—among them writing center tutors and administrators, writing teachers, and disciplinary leaders—posit that writing centers are ideally positioned to assess the remarkable shift in the ways that students are now learning and writing. Drawing on praxis-based, data-driven, and narrative approaches, their 27 chapters explore the intersections of AI and writing center work. The result is a practical guide for writing center practitioners at all levels that addresses the critical role writing centers can and should play in helping students, faculty, and institutions navigate this complicated and historic moment.
Elisabeth H. Buck is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at Fordham University in New York City. She is the author of Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies (Palgrave, 2018), which was a finalist for the 2018 IWCA Outstanding Book Award. Her work has appeared in multiple journals and collections across writing studies, and she is the current editor of The Peer Review journal. She enjoys researching and teaching writing center theory and administration, digital and social media, and the rhetoric of popular culture.
Joshua Botvin is Assistant Teaching Professor in the English and Communication Program and the Assistant Director of the Writing and Multiliteracy Center at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is also a doctoral atudent in the Technical Communication and Rhetoric program at Texas Tech University. He instructs first-year courses in Critical Writing & Reading as well as Technical and Business Communication. His research interests focus on the studies of rhetoric, writing centers, generative AI, labor equity, and classroom accessibility.
Publication Information:
Buck, Elisabeth H., & Joshua Botvin (Eds.). (2026). Writing Centers and AI: Generating Early Conversations. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2026.2791
Series Editors: Rich Rice, Texas Tech University, and J. Michael Rifenburg, University of North Georgia
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