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Director of The Writing Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY. A lover of good books and bad tv. Author of Shakespeare and the Truth-Teller: Confronting the Cynic Ideal (Edinburgh UP, 2019). They/he.
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If you teach graduate students, know that they live in fear of being accused of plagiarizing with AI, and that “testing the waters” to see what they say can be the source of profound trauma for them.
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These students were absolutely beside themselves. In each case, the issues had to do with communication contexts in which technical and professional writing called for highly conventional formulations. Situations in which good human writing is likely to resemble AI output.
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It really is!
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"As the New York Times summarized these findings, CUNY 'propelled almost six times as many low-income students into the middle class and beyond as all eight Ivy League campuses, plus Duke, M.I.T., Stanford and Chicago, combined.'"
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Ugh, sorry you’re dealing with that! Last year we all got COVID the day before Thanksgiving. It sucked.
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I’m telling them you said that!
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Added! Communicating our knowledge work to people beyond the academy is an important form of accounting for academia itself.
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A lot of people I know to include aren’t on here yet, but surely that will change with each passing day!
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Interesting! I think a lot of us jot down thoughts when they occur to us (in the notes app, on stray paper, etc.), but the real question is what do we DO with those notes. What system do people have for archiving those stray stray thoughts and building with them? This is where most of us fall short.
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I also have a lot of stray ideas set down in notes app! But its a bit chaotic to go through them, or to hunt down a particular idea.
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I like that!
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My sense is that most graduate students don’t do any of these things, and I want to collect more examples of systems people use to record and develop their preliminary thoughts and ideas BEFORE there’s a particular output (article, conference paper, etc.) in mind.
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📌
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Registered! Let’s show up in force for this one, white dudes (and masc-presenting non-binary people)! Amazing to see Harris inaugurate the age of zoom rallies so quickly and effectively.
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It’s a great system! We teach it at the graduate writing center I direct. You can check out some useful materials on our website: cuny.is/writingcenter
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It would definitely be built in. In CUNY, it’s in the union contract that junior faculty get an observation every semester.
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They also have hotel rooms, which are pricey but also include a day and a half of all the sauna stuff. And the food is good!
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SoJo is really nice. Roof pool, another pool with like 30 different massage jet stations, about a dozen different saunas, a really lovely half of a floor that’s just quiet with teak recliner chairs for reading and sleeping, and a bunch of hot water bath/hot tub areas.
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Good hilarious? I’ve never been! We’ve only ever gone to SoJo in Edgewater.
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Nice! We usually go to SoJo. Have fun!