--- title: Writing with AI description: AI tools are changing how people draft, edit and research. You will learn effective workflows for writing with language models, their limits and failure modes, and how to keep your voice and integrity. category: literature-writing subcategory: non-fiction-writing difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/writing-with-ai --- # Writing with AI AI tools are changing how people draft, edit and research. You will learn effective workflows for writing with language models, their limits and failure modes, and how to keep your voice and integrity. ## Available Resources 2 Books • 2 Websites • 2 Papers ## Websites ### 1. How do I cite generative AI in MLA style? (Updated and Revised) The Modern Language Association's own rules for attributing AI-generated material: never credit the tool as author, name the model and version, describe the prompt, date the generation. Five worked examples plus guidance on chasing down sources a model cites. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://style.mla.org/citing-generative-ai-updated-revised/ **Tags:** mla-style, citation, generative-ai, academic-writing, attribution ### 2. One Useful Thing **Author:** Ethan Mollick Mollick's newsletter reporting his own and Wharton's controlled experiments with language models. Posts cover prompting that survives testing, where models fail, and drafting and editing workflows, revised as models change rather than frozen at publication. AI moves fast enough that a topic with only books goes stale; this is the one continuously-updated source with real evidence behind it. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.oneusefulthing.org/ **Tags:** generative-ai, prompting, ai-research, writing-workflows, newsletter ## Papers ### 1. AI Suggestions Homogenize Writing Toward Western Styles and Diminish Cultural Nuances **Author:** Dhruv Agarwal, Mor Naaman, Aditya Vashistha A controlled experiment with 118 writers in India and the United States found that autocomplete suggestions pushed non-Western participants toward Western phrasing and stripped cultural detail, while delivering them smaller speed gains. Measured evidence of how assistance flattens voice. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11360 **Tags:** ai-writing-assistants, cultural-bias, human-computer-interaction, autocomplete, writing-style ### 2. ChatGPT is bullshit **Author:** Michael Townsen Hicks, James Humphries, Joe Slater Three philosophers argue that calling model errors 'hallucinations' misleads users, because these systems are indifferent to truth rather than mistaken about it. Gives a writer a working account of why every AI-supplied fact and citation needs independent checking. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/327588/ **Tags:** large-language-models, hallucination, philosophy-of-ai, fact-checking, ai-ethics ## Books ### 1. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI **Author:** Ethan Mollick Four working principles for treating a language model as a collaborator: invite it to every task, stay the human in the loop, tell it what kind of persona to adopt, and assume today's model is the worst you will ever use. It teaches a durable collaboration model rather than tool tactics that expire in a quarter. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/059371671X?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** generative-ai, human-ai-collaboration, prompting, future-of-work ### 2. More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI **Author:** John Warner A veteran writing teacher's argument that writing is thinking and feeling, not text production, and that much school and workplace prose was already hollow before ChatGPT. Warner supplies the mental model - writing is a thinking process whose output is a by-product - that lets a learner reason about any future tool rather than memorising this year's tactics. The revised paperback adds concrete practices for writers and teachers. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541605527?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** writing-pedagogy, generative-ai, writing-process, critical-thinking, education --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/writing-with-ai