This presentation explores activities that help students examine how AI impacts credibility, agency, and rhetorical choices regarding audience, purpose, context, and writer. Central to these assignments is a course outcome: analyzing how systemic inequalities shape the formal and informal rules defining “good” and “bad” writing. The assignments ask students to consider: whose rules does AI learn, enforce, and normalize? Students analyze AI use in dating apps and social media activism to see how audiences perceive both content and writer, then transfer these insights to academic sources and their own writing.
