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Summary:

"In the age of artificial intelligence, drafting an essay is as simple as typing a prompt and pressing enter. What does this mean for the art of writing? According to longtime writing teacher John Warner: not very much. More Than Words argues that generative AI programs like ChatGPT not only can kill the student essay but should, since these assignments don't challenge students to do the real work of writing. To Warner, writing is thinking - discovering your ideas while trying to capture them on a page - and feeling - grappling with what it fundamentally means to be human. The fact that we ask students to complete so many assignments that a machine could do is a sign that something has gone very wrong with writing instruction. More Than Words calls for us to use AI as an opportunity to reckon with how we work with words - and how all of us should rethink our relationship with writing"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Automation, not intelligence
• Stop, now, before it's too late!
• A personal history of the automation of writing
• Only humans write
• Writing is thinking
• Writing is feeling
• Writing is a practice
• Life with a writing practice
• Reading and writing
• Reading, writing, and robots
• Here come the teaching machines (again)
• Writing in the classroom of today (and tomorrow)
• Reading like a writer
• Content vs. writing
• On the future of writing for money
• My digital doppelgänger
• A framework for action: resist, renew, explore
• Resist
• Renew
• Explore

• The journey never ends.

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Author/Creator:

Warner, John, 1970- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

More than words: how to think about writing in the age of AI [by Warner, J.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: More than words [by Warner, J.] (First edition; New York : Basic Books, [2025] — ISBN 9781541605510; LCCN 2024019285; OCLC Number 1463407389)

Subjects:

Artificial intelligence — Educational applications

Natural language generation (Computer science) — Computer programs

English language — Composition and exercises — Study and teaching — United States

English language — Rhetoric — Study and teaching — United States

Critical thinking — Study and teaching — United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

x, 309 pages ; 22 cm

Call Numbers:

LB1028.43 .W367 2025

ISBNs:

9781541605503 (hardcover)
1541605500 (hardcover)
9781541605510 (electronic book) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024019284

OCLC Numbers:

1437986820