Author: liping-yang

Liping Yang is an Assistant Professor of English at Kennesaw State University. Her research focuses on AI in writing and rhetoric, computational rhetorics, and writing technologies. She teaches business writing, technical writing, digital writing, and first-year composition. She has published widely in disciplinary conferences and journals, with her work appearing in publications by Peter Lang and Taylor & Francis.

Since the public release of generative AI tools in late 2022, writing studies has been filled with debate, uncertainty, and rapid institutional response. Early conversations circulate familiar narratives of technological crisis and anxious headlines and hot takes lamenting that AI “Destroys College Writing?” (Hsu, 2025), “signals death of author” (Lachman, 2025), and might “kill writing career” (Benitez, 2025), largely because AI appeared capable of generating complete texts and appeared to perform writing. At the same time, other scholars and teachers continue to call for refusal, boundary-setting, and renewed attention to humanistic values in writing instruction (Fernandes et al., 2024; Brown…

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