As a new graduate student at Northeastern University in the 2010s, I remember attending several professional development workshops on multimodal writing. Touted as a more accessible, creative, and enjoyable approach to teaching writing, the assignments that the speaker shared looked like shadowboxes filled with visual and textual content. I sat with other graduate students and lecturers who taught in the university’s writing program and could hear both the excitement and the fear in the voices of my colleagues as we turned to the Q and A portion of the discussion. What happens if students do not know how to use…
Author: Isabella Buck
Genie Nicole Giaimo
Dr. Isabella Buck is currently the head of the Competence & Career Center at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, Germany. Until March 2024, she worked at the university's writing center. Additionally, she is a freelance lecturer at various universities across Germany. Her research explores academic writing in the age of Artificial Intelligence, focusing on its implications for higher education, assessment, learning, and teaching. She also serves on the board of the German Society for Writing Instruction and Research (gefsus).