The Eleventh Conference on Writing Analytics - 2025

The Eleventh International Writing Analytics Conference will explore Writing Analytics and Generative AI. 

The conference directors have invited presentations on current research findings and new directions for research.

Where: University of South Florida, Tampa
When: March 7 & 8, 2025

Conference Hotel: Rooms are available at La Quinta and Embassy Suites. 

• A block has been reserved at La Quinta, which is across from campus and walkable by crossing Fowler Ave. Rooms are $189 per night. Use the link for direct registration.

• Embassy Suites is on campus but still a little walk to our location. Rooms rates include happy hour and are around $250 per night. We do not have a block, so if you are interested, we suggest reserving soon.

Registration: Registration is $150 and the registration portal is open.

Schedule: Available here

     Detailed Schedule: Available here

Flyer: 2025 Writing Analytics Flyer

Conference Organizers and Contacts:

Alaina Tackitt, PhD, atackitt@usf.edu Associate Professor of Instruction Department of English University of South Florida

S. Morgan Gresham, PhD, gresham@mail.usf.edu Associate Professor and Writing Program Coordinator Department of English University of South Florida

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Conference Theme: Writing Analytics and Generative Artificial Intelligence

Conference Description: David Kaufer and Suguru Ishizaki have recently proposed a new vision for writing environments enhanced by artificial intelligence:  

An AI that creates content threatens to undermine the work of writing educators and those who write for a living. We envision a different future. We believe that appropriately harnessed, generative AI can enhance the writing process and make it more fluid, democratic, and inclusive. Our vision is restrained generative AI, freeing writers to allocate more time to critical thinking skills, planning, and substantive ideas. We believe that strategically deployed, restrained generative AI can address the cognitive and motivational barriers that have stood in the way of scaling writing education.” (“Future of Writing in the Disciplines,” White Paper, Carnegie Mellon University, 2024, p. 4)

This conference will focus on important issues raised by our Carnegie Mellon colleagues in terms of a future of writing technologies that support student learning at the intersection of technology and pedagogy. 

To advance the conference theme, we invited presenters to consider the following themes: 

• Definitions: How is AI best defined and distinguished as a generative technology? What role does writing analytics play in the advancement of AI to support student learning?  
• Taxonomies: How may AI taxonomies be developed that address varied dimensions of writing processes, feedback, and motivation? What existing taxonomies exist in writing analytics that may be used to advance AI taxonomies?
• Pedagogies: How may present pedagogies be used in develop AI for writing instruction and feedback? What roles do advanced teaching and assessment pedagogies, such as ePortfolios, play in such development?
• Institutional Responses: What are the international responses to AI, and what may we learn from these responses? What institutional responses allow us to develop a series of best practices for using AI in writing classrooms? What ethical frameworks best support our institutional responses and pedagogies?

Conference presenters and interested participants will be invited to work with the editors of Journal of Writing Analytics to propose and develop manuscripts for publication in 2025.

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Keynote

"Possible Futures for Writing Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities"

Mike Palmquist, PhD

Emeritus Professor of English, Emeritus Associate Provost, and Emeritus University Distinguished Teaching Scholar
Colorado State University
Publisher, The Journal of Writing Analytics

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This year, the conference will feature two demonstrations from scholars and teachers who are using tools related to AI and Analytics in their research and in their classrooms. 

DocuScope Classroom: Innovations, Pedagogies, and Next Steps

Danielle Zawodny Wetzel, PhD

Teaching Professor of Rhetoric
Director, Writing & Communication Program
Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University

Michael Laudenbach, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Ben Markey

PhD Candidate
Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University

R Project Computing: Data Science for Learning Analytics and Writing Analytics

David Eubanks, PhD

Assistant Vice President for Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness
Furman University

 

 

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Siân Alsop, PhD Assistant Professor Coventry University	Chris Anson, PhD Distinguished University Professor North Carolina State University
Ian G. Anson, PhD Associate Professor University of Maryland, Baltimore County	Duncan A. Buell, PhD NCR Chair of Computer Science and Engineering University of South Carolina
Norbert Elliot, PhD Professor Emeritus New Jersey Institute of Technology	Anca Garcia, PhD Assistant Professor of English Georgia Gwinnett College
Jason Godfrey, PhD Director of Data Science Accelerate	Brian Gogan, PhD Professor of English Western Michigan University
S. Morgan Gresham, PhD Associate Professor and Writing Program Coordinator University of South Florida	Helen Jeoung, PhD Lecturer in Critical Writing University of Pennsylvania
Suzanne Lane, PhD Senior Lecturer Cornell University	Susan Lang, PhD Director, Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing The Ohio State University
Sherry Rankins-Robertson, PhD Professor and Chair University of Central Florida	Valerie Ross, PhD Retired Senior Director University of Pennsylvania
David Slomp, PhD Professor of Literacy and Assessment University of Lethbridge	Alex Rudniy, PhD Associate Professor of Computer Science Drew University