Contemporary writing practices rarely look like a straight line. A draft opens in Google Docs. A prompt is tested in ChatGPT. A source is skimmed through a database. Feedback arrives through comments. A sentence is revised, then rephrased by an AI tool, then revised again. It is tempting to describe this as a loop—a recursive, iterative process in which writers move back and forth among tools and tasks. This metaphor works, to a point. It captures circulation, return, and adjustment. But it also risks smoothing over something more complicated; loops suggest coherence. They imply that writing moves along a track,…
Author: Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips is an Assistant Professor of Instruction and the Associate Director of First-Year Writing at the University of South Florida. His research interests span Generative AI, Writing Pedagogy, Writing Theory, Writing Program Administration, and Writing Assessment.