We’re in a writing class working on drafts for the first project. I open up a student’s draft in Google Docs, noticing that this time, I am logged in as an Anonymous Capybara. The student is typing, pauses, and suddenly there is an entire paragraph of pasted text from a source that appears to be unknown. Is this the work of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)? Is this from another source on the web? Did the student work in a different document and is now pasting their ideas into this one? I navigate to the history of the Doc and review…
Author: Morgan Banville
Morgan Banville
Morgan C. Banville, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Her research and teaching are defined by the intersection of technical communication and surveillance studies, often informed by feminist methodologies. She examines how biometric technologies are implemented in diverse contexts, and her research was awarded the 2026 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship’s Nontraditional Scholarly Text, 2024 CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication, and the 2024 Best Research Article Award from the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC). You can find her recent work in the Routledge Handbook of Social Justice in Technical & Professional Communication, Surveillance & Society, Programmatic Perspectives, and more.