In an age of AI-assisted writing, is it important for university students to learn how to write?
We believe it is now more than ever.
In the writing classroom, students get the time and help they need to understand writing as not only a skill, but what the language scholar Walter J. Ong called a "technology that restructures thought."
"Technology" is not simply iPhones or spreadsheets it is about mediating our relationship with the world through the creation of tools, and writing itself is arguably the most important tool for thinking that university students need to master.
