We recommend using a checklist to ensure that these details are correct and that you've remembered other citation guidelines. (2/2) 🔗 In-Text Citation Checklist: apastyle.apa.org/instructiona... 🔗 more free handouts: apastyle.apa.org/instructiona...

In an APA Style paper 🔹 each work you cite should appear in the reference list, and 🔹 each work in the reference list should be cited in the text (body) at least once. 👉 "The text (body)" includes any tables or figures that are included. So, citing a work in a table or in a figure "counts." (1/2)

This page is our hub for APA Style information useful for nursing students, educators, and professionals: apastyle.apa.org/nurses 👉 videos for nursing students 👉 a link to our YouTube playlist for nurses, and 👉 a link to example references for the following nursing-focused works: (1/3)

If you're a writing center professional in the Mid-Atlantic, West Baltimore is the place to be later this spring. Registration for the MAWCA 2026 conference, hosted by Coppin State University on March 27-28, is now open! Early Bird rates are available until February 27. mawca.org/event-6535252

A possible hot take: I am so very tired of these surveys of faculty and/or student feelings/perceptions/attitudes about AI... www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t... Here's a thread explaining why...

If you haven't heard, the deadline to submit a proposal for MAWCA 2026, right here in West Baltimore this March, has been extended to Sunday, January 11! Bring your ideas to "The City That Reads": forms.gle/Bvobs7K6sjWW...

Understanding Generative AI: A Primer for College Writers docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The CCCC Special Committee on Generative AI in College Composition & Writing Studies is pleased to share two docs that have been in the works since this past summer: Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The Free Black Women’s Library is a social art project that features a collection of over 5000 books written by Black women & Black non-binary writers, a free store, a period pantry, a Reading Club, and more Read more on how to support literacy power www.thefreeblackwomenslibrary.com/new-page

In addition, student paper samples are available: 🔹 discussion post 🔹 literature review 🔹 quantitative study 🔹 annotated bibliography 🔗 Download all sample #APAStyle papers for free at apastyle.apa.org/style-gramma... #APA7 #TeachingAPAStyle #TeachingResources (3/3)

Also mark your calendar for the third reading circle as @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @vymanivannan.bsky.social, & Travis Margoni will facilitate a workshop on applying these conversations to the teaching of writing. Happening on Monday, Jan 12, 4–5 PM ET! my.ncte.org/event-inform...

A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal" refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...

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This handout with the six steps to proper citation is available free—along with many other handouts, guides, and checklists—on the #APAStyle site: 🔗 apastyle.apa.org/instructiona... #APA7 #APAformat #AcademicWriting #CiteYourSources #AuthorDate

Our staff is looking forward to engaging with the IWCA/NCPTW conference's virtual sessions today, but that means tutoring services will be unavailable from 10:00 AM to 3:45 PM.

The annual Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association (MAWCA) conference is coming to Coppin State next March, the first time an HBCU has hosted the proceedings since 1999. The call for proposals is officially open. Join us in West Baltimore for "Cities That Write": mawca.org/2026-confere...

The Coppin State Writing Center is set to host a trio of virtual workshops on Microsoft Teams later this fall semester! If you missed our earlier events on APA, MLA, and generative AI, we're running them back a second time. Links to come, but please contact us for more information.

Join us on Wednesday, October 8, for SciCafe: Mapping the Costs of AI. Kate Crawford (@katecrawford.bsky.social), research professor at the University of Southern California, will explore the environmental and human cost of AI systems. SciCafe is 21+ and free with RSVP. Get tickets: bit.ly/4nB7w33

Join Carmen Kynard and Cindy Tekobbe for a discussion of @karenhao.bsky.social's Empire of AI! Thursday, October 16, 5:30 PM ET, free for all CCCC members. Join CCCC: ncte.org/college/cccc.... Register: my.ncte.org/event-inform... Enter our book giveaway: ncte.org/cccc-fall-20... @ncte.org

We're excited for this year's Baltimore Writing Center Project, an opportunity for administrators and tutors alike across Maryland, NoVa, and southern PA to connect with and learn from leading scholars. This year's BWCP begins on Wednesday, 10/8. Want to learn more? Send us a DM!

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

How do you cite generative AI in #APAStyle? This week on the blog: updated guidance for citing ChatGPT, Gemini, and other generative AI tools! 🔗 apastyle.apa.org/blog/cite-ge... #APA7 #AcademicWriting #CiteYourSources #CitingAI #CiteAI

The Writing Center will host its first workshop of the semester next week! If you want to learn more about APA, arguably the most widely used citation and formatting style at Coppin State, don't miss out. Join us on Monday, 9/15, at 2:00 PM in the Atrium, located on the Talon Center's second floor.

We've got some big news to drop soon. 👀

Excited to share that we were featured in the USM Accessibility in Action – September 2025 Issue, in the “Campus in Focus” section! The newsletter from the Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation highlights our commitment to centering student voices: us8.campaign-archive.com?u=4ce992e3f6...

New blog post by Elizabeth Palumbo about A Student's Right to Refuse Generative AI: refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a... #RefusingGenAI

The fall semester has arrived at Coppin State! No matter your writing goals, we're ready to help you discover your voice, explore your ideas, and get work done.

A new academic year starts on Monday.

"Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They drink. They leave."

This reminds me of this excellent new article that shows how ChatGPT actually increase language anxiety and linguistic insecurity for Chinese international students for found themselves relying on it more and more in ways that took away their voice. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"...There is a carve-out allowing the bot 'to create statements that demean people on the basis of their protected characteristics.' ... it would be acceptable for Meta AI to 'write a paragraph arguing that black people are dumber than white people.'" www.reuters.com/investigates...

Inaugural launch! Coppin’s Digital Accessibility Hub now features our Faculty Showcase & Recognition page, celebrating faculty members who embrace progress over perfection to remove barriers and create inclusive learning environments for all. #CoppinPride www.coppin.edu/digital-acce...

When you remember that "generative AI" is just a business product, then learning more about the product, realizing it doesn't do everything you thought it could, and tempering one's enthusiasm as a result is a reasonable response. As writing centers know, context is valuable.

Grok's remodeling illustrates a particular and significant concern about generative AI for our writing center. College writers are expected to trust a product that can be remade so readily to reflect... this?

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

The Senate is considering a bill that would prevent states from making any regulations on AI for ten years with no federal alternative. This gives Big Tech a blank check to deploy these technologies without oversight or consequences. Tell Congress: Oppose the ten-year ban on AI regulation.

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

New blog post: What’s “Critical” About Critical AI? Or, Why I’m Still Not Convinced We Should Be Teaching Students to Use LLM Chatbots This is based on an excerpt from my #cwcon25 keynote, where I discuss the rhetoric of "criticality" in AI discourse. refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/w...

It's important to make the distinction between "ChatGPT gives you an answer" and "ChatGPT gives you the model of what an answer would look like" because there are differences in what we assume in both statements. What do people think of when you ask them to think about the idea of a "model"?

This is a problem we are especially attuned to as an HBCU writing center, given that the biases within large language models tend to devalue linguistic diversity, which can pose unnecessary problems for our writers.

It's a beautiful day for some writing.

Please send me the funny/terrible Google AI/chat GPT search results you have spotted. For example, the one that suggests eating one small rock per day, or the one that suggests using an iron to smooth your scrotum wrinkles.

Part 2

I spent a bunch of time responding to some uptake of AI hype in the educational sector and am sharing here bc I think it's important to see examples of what this looks like and how to assess it—and also to have a reminder of the value of rhetorical analysis www.linkedin.com/posts/jsanof...

Happening today: Reframing Resistance to AI: An Online Symposium organized by the Equality Lab @ William & Mary docs.google.com/document/d/1... @nobugsnous.bsky.social @rcmeg.bsky.social & I are presenting @ 3:20–4:20 PM EDT—and you can chat w/the brill @nobugsnous.bsky.social during the Q&A!

Check out @rosmith.bsky.social and my interview with @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The Department of Education is looking for public testimonies about student loan forgiveness, so join us in the Parlett Moore Library this afternoon and next Tuesday to learn more about the topic and how to make your voice heard.

Here is an interesting adjective quirk that you probably aren’t even aware you are doing. In English, adjectives seem to follow a specific order: opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.