AI is Manna for Writing Studies or, How to Stay Calm in Troubled Times

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  • Jennifer Trainor San Francisco State University

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Jennifer Trainor, San Francisco State University

Jennifer Trainor is a professor in the English department, where she teaches graduate courses on writing pedagogy, as well as undergraduate writing courses. Her research has focused on antiracism, assessment, student engagement, and technology. Her book, Rethinking Racism: Emotion, Persuasion, and Literacy Education won the MLA’s Mina Shaughnessy Prize for scholarship in composition. Other publications include "Charting a New Course: Organic Writing Assessment" and "Seeking Literacy Justice in the Age of the Machine: Insights from a Six-Year Program Assessment Project."  

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2026-02-13

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Trainor, J. (2026). AI is Manna for Writing Studies or, How to Stay Calm in Troubled Times. Literacy in Composition Studies, 12(2), 58–71. Retrieved from https://licsjournal.org/index.php/LiCS/article/view/3547

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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2026): 12.2

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