
Teaching Writing in the Age of AI
Strategies for Teachers of Secondary Students (Support Thinking and Writing in AI-Powered Classrooms.)
Solution Tree (Publisher)
Published on 17. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-960574-84-8 (ISBN)
Description
Generative AI affects how students learn to write in more ways than one. Digital literacy experts Troy Hicks and Kristen Hawley Turner explore the ethical and practical challenges of using AI tools in writing lessons. They unpack how AI works and offer strategies that nurture student thinking, creativity, and academic honesty. Learn how to support student agency and authentic writing in an AI-driven world.
Grades 6-12 writing teachers will use this book to:
- Better understand the design and function of various genAI writing tools
- Preserve and enhance student writers' creative agency with targeted genAI assistance
- Define acceptable, academically honest uses of genAI that prepare students for writing
- Examine genAI's ability to inform students' craft of persuasive or argumentative writing
- Explore how genAI can help students develop and create engaging narrative prose
Contents:
Introduction: Being and Becoming Writing Teachers in an Age of Generative AI
Chapter 1: Understanding GenAI, Addressing Concerns, and Exploring the Technology Behind the Tools
Chapter 2: Using Frames for Thinking About GenAI in the Writing Classroom
Chapter 3: Developing Writers' Agency and a Sense of Curiosity With GenAI
Chapter 4: Using GenAI to Examine and Begin Writing Tasks
Chapter 5: Engaging With GenAI for Argument Writing
Chapter 6: Engaging With GenAI for Narrative Writing
Chapter 7: Empowering Writers' Agency in the Age of GenAI
Epilogue
Appendix: Annotated List of GenAI Tools
References
Index
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Edition
Technology ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 176 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-960574-84-8 (9781960574848)
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Troy Hicks | Kristen Hawley Turner
Teaching Writing in the Age of AI
Strategies for Teachers of Secondary Students (Support thinking and writing in AI-powered classrooms.)
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Solution Tree Press
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