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SUMMARY:Build Up Healthy Writing Habits with Writing Together Online (Chal
 lenge 1)
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DESCRIPTION:Writing Together Online offers the structured writing time to 
 help you stay focused and productive during the busy fall months. Join our
  daily 90-minute writing sessions and become part of a community of schola
 rs who connect online\, set realistic goals\, and write together in the sp
 irit of accountability and camaraderie. We offer writing sessions every wo
 rkday\, Monday through Friday. The program is open to all MIT students\, p
 ostdocs\, faculty\, staff\, and affiliates who are working on papers\, pro
 posals\, thesis/dissertation chapters\, application materials\, and other 
 writing projects. \n\nPlease register for any number of sessions:\n\nMonda
 y\, Wednesday\, and Friday 9:00–10:30am (EST)\nTuesday and Thursday\, 9:
 00–10:15am and 10:15-11:30am (EST)\n\nFor more information and to regist
 er\, go to this link or check the WCC website. Please spread the word and 
 join with colleagues and friends. MIT Students and postdocs who attend at 
 least 5 sessions per challenge will be entered into a gift-card raffle.
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DESCRIPTION:Writing Together Online offers the structured writing time to 
 help you stay focused and productive during the busy fall months. Join our
  daily 90-minute writing sessions and become part of a community of schola
 rs who connect online\, set realistic goals\, and write together in the sp
 irit of accountability and camaraderie. We offer writing sessions every wo
 rkday\, Monday through Friday. The program is open to all MIT students\, p
 ostdocs\, faculty\, staff\, and affiliates who are working on papers\, pro
 posals\, thesis/dissertation chapters\, application materials\, and other 
 writing projects. \n\nPlease register for any number of sessions:\n\nMonda
 y\, Wednesday\, and Friday 9:00–10:30am (EST)\nTuesday and Thursday\, 9:
 00–10:15am and 10:15-11:30am (EST)\n\nFor more information and to regist
 er\, go to this link or check the WCC website. Please spread the word and 
 join with colleagues and friends. MIT Students and postdocs who attend at 
 least 5 sessions per challenge will be entered into a gift-card raffle.
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SUMMARY:John Gallagher: “Students still think they write better than the
  machines: A study of undergrad self-perceptions of Generative AI and writ
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DESCRIPTION:Since ChatGPT arrived\, surveys suggest that 86% of students u
 se GenAI in their academic work. But what do students really think about t
 hese tools\, and about their own writing? In this talk\, I share findings 
 from a large-scale survey (n=342) of University of Illinois undergraduates
  conducted in spring 2026. These students occupy a unique moment in histor
 y: they learned to write before GenAI existed\, which makes them well posi
 tioned to compare their own abilities to a machine’s. The results may su
 rprise you. Students report high familiarity with AI but lukewarm trust. N
 early half of humanities students say they never use these tools at all\, 
 while business and STEM students use and trust them the most. When asked t
 o compare their writing to GenAI\, students overwhelmingly judged their ow
 n work superior\, insisting that their ideas are better. Along the way\, s
 peaker John Gallagher discusses research that shows GenAI erodes writing a
 bility over time by making us less persistent. Whether you use AI every da
 y\, avoid it entirely\, or simply wonder what it means for how we write an
 d think\, this conversation is for you.\n\n \n\nThis talk is part of WRAP
 ‘s series on AI and writing\, supported by a SHASS MITHIC grant.\n\n \n\
 nJohn Gallagher is a Professor of English and Faculty Affiliate at the Sch
 ool of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
 \, where he researches AI writing\, social media habits\, and methods that
  combine qualitative and quantitative techniques. He is the author of four
  books\, including AI Though the Experts’ Eyes\, available from the Univ
 ersity of Pittsburgh Press in September. In addition to student use of Gen
 AI\, his current projects include studies of participation inequality in o
 nline communities (a select few actually participate online) with implicat
 ions for LLM training data.
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