Britt A
@balloonleap.bsky.social
Mitacs Postdoc in Open, Collaborative Scholarship (Arts & Hum), INKE Partnership || Postdoc in Open Social Scholarship, Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (UVic) || PhD in Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies ('23, Carleton U)
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December 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Nailed it with the analogy
November 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Nailed it with the analogy
Millenial parent: just got to get the right angle....there!
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Millenial parent: just got to get the right angle....there!
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It is amazing actually what good pedagogy can accomplish by guiding students, incl. in their very first year of university, through the substantive work of facing serious course materials head-on with discipline-specific approaches. Relying on synthetic text critique is really not it.
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
It is amazing actually what good pedagogy can accomplish by guiding students, incl. in their very first year of university, through the substantive work of facing serious course materials head-on with discipline-specific approaches. Relying on synthetic text critique is really not it.
I would welcome stickers, notebooks, and mugs. Should we set up a side-gig?
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I would welcome stickers, notebooks, and mugs. Should we set up a side-gig?
Very relatedly!
Understanding what a thesis is, how to structure and support it, etc. is not only a discipline specific practice, it's one that comes with time and repetition. There's so much more to writing than words.
Understanding what a thesis is, how to structure and support it, etc. is not only a discipline specific practice, it's one that comes with time and repetition. There's so much more to writing than words.
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Very relatedly!
Understanding what a thesis is, how to structure and support it, etc. is not only a discipline specific practice, it's one that comes with time and repetition. There's so much more to writing than words.
Understanding what a thesis is, how to structure and support it, etc. is not only a discipline specific practice, it's one that comes with time and repetition. There's so much more to writing than words.
Right! I also wonder how the novice writers is expected to imagine themselves with/in the convos of their disciplines if the assignment is focused on synthetic txt. Maybe need to think abt it more...I suspect the socio-rhet dimensions are being lost somewhere in the overhyped AI assignment u ref'd.
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Right! I also wonder how the novice writers is expected to imagine themselves with/in the convos of their disciplines if the assignment is focused on synthetic txt. Maybe need to think abt it more...I suspect the socio-rhet dimensions are being lost somewhere in the overhyped AI assignment u ref'd.
I also think novice writers are only beginning to dev. genre awareness & knowledge...How reasonable is it to expect they'd pick up on the nuances, say, of word choice (e.g., using 'validity'... or not) when they are still learning / imagining themselves in the convos of their disciplines?
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I also think novice writers are only beginning to dev. genre awareness & knowledge...How reasonable is it to expect they'd pick up on the nuances, say, of word choice (e.g., using 'validity'... or not) when they are still learning / imagining themselves in the convos of their disciplines?