Writing and Rhetoric Studies in the Loop

with Anuj Gupta & Brian Gogan

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Anuj Gupta and Brian Gogan explore the GenAI prompt as a rhetorical genre and keeping writers in the loop on episode 636 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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We were interested in what kind of moves and maneuvers, strategies writers of generative AI prompts were actually enacting.

Think of the expertise or supervision that you’re developing with AI through prompting as a verb rather than a noun. You’re constantly learning new moves and new techniques and shaping AI as it develops along with you.
-Anuj Gupta

If you try and do everything AI, you will never succeed. Find a newsletter that is collating information about what’s happening with AI in your fields.
-Anuj Gupta

We were interested in what kind of moves and maneuvers, strategies writers of generative AI prompts were actually enacting.
-Brian Gogan

When I think about keeping the human in the loop, I want to make sure that we are not handing those production processes off solely to machines, and the human needs a role in those production processes.
-Brian Gogan

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Anuj Gupta

Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric

Anuj Gupta is an Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric in the Department of English at the University of South Florida, where he studies how writing technologies, especially generative AI, shape writers, genres, and society. His research spans generative AI, rhetorical genre theory, human-computer interaction, user experience design, and mixed-methods inquiry. His dissertation, 'Learning To Talk to Generative AI Chatbots' : A Corpus Study of Generative AI Prompts, an Emerging Genre for AI Literacy, earned two national awards: the CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award and the Computers and Composition Hugh Burns Outstanding Dissertation Award. His research has also been recognized by leading organizations including AAC&U, NCTE, ATTW, and CWPA for advancing the future of writing, technology, and pedagogy. Among these honors, he recently received the Computers and Composition Michelle Kendrick Outstanding Digital Production and Scholarship Award and an honorable mention for the Computers and Composition Ellen Nold Award for Outstanding Article. His work appears in leading journals including Computers and Composition, Kairos, Composition Forum, Composition Studies, WPA: Writing Program Administration, and Open Praxis. He is co-editor of Digital Literacies for Human Connection (NCTE Press), a collection of assignment-based digital scholarship exploring technology's role in shaping human connection. He earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Arizona.

Brian Gogan

Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies

Brian Gogan, Ph.D., is a professor of rhetoric and writing studies in the Department of English at Western Michigan University, where he also directs the first-year writing program. With Anuj Gupta, he is co-editor of Writing and Rhetoric Studies in the Loop: A GenAI Prompt Library (2026). He serves as the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Writing Analytics, and his research has appeared in College Composition and Communication, the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, and Rhetoric Review, among others. His first monograph, Jean Baudrillard: The Rhetoric of Symbolic Exchange, was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2017. Work on two additional edited collections—one focused on the generative artificial intelligence prompt genre and one focused on autoethnography—is underway. Gogan teaches courses in professional writing, rhetorical criticism, and college composition. His work in the classroom was recognized with Western Michigan University's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2021, and his work with communities beyond the classroom was recognized with Western Michigan University's Distinguished Service Award in 2026.

Bonni Stachowiak

Bonni Stachowiak is dean of teaching and learning and professor of business and management at Vanguard University. She hosts Teaching in Higher Ed, a weekly podcast on the art and science of teaching with over five million downloads. Bonni holds a doctorate in Organizational Leadership and speaks widely on teaching, curiosity, digital pedagogy, and leadership. She often joins her husband, Dave, on his Coaching for Leaders podcast.

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