Miriam (professor): Writing is, of course, a process. I have written for years: on yellow legal pads, index cards, sticky notes, book margins, notebooks, and journals. I have composed on Mac-SE computers with tiny screens, laptops, and iPads—on Word and Google Docs. In 58 years of life and 35 years of teaching, the tools and conditions of composing have changed. The writing experience—as discovery, learning, and craft—has not. How do first-year college students write—those already used to prompting an LLM for ideas, organization, lexis, grammar, and style? What does process even mean for them? Perhaps, like Prufrock, I grow old. …
Author: Miriam Moore
Miriam Moore
I'm a professor, word-lover, Lewis and Tolkien reader, linguist, basic writing instructor, ESL teacher, wife, mom, Alabama football fan, textbook author, journal-keeper, and God-follower. I teach composition, grammar, introductory linguistics, and ESOL pedagogy courses at the University of North Georgia, in Gainesville, Georgia.