How should instructors adapt technical editing courses to account for generative artificial intelligence (AI)? This article addresses what generative AI means for technical editing pedagogy. While AI tools may be able to address rote editing tasks, expert editors are still needed to provide accessible, ethical, and justice-oriented edits. After reviewing impacts of generative AI on editing praxis, the author focuses on the microcredentials that she built into an editing course in order to address these impacts pedagogically. The goal was to enable students to understand AI, argue for their expertise, and edit from ethical and social justice perspectives.
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Mallette, Jennifer C. "Preparing Future Technical Editors for an Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Workplace", Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 38(3), pp. 289-302. Copyright © 2024, The Author(s). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/10506519241239950
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