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Allison Dieppa
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Instructor of writing and literature at Florida Gulf Coast University | Composition studies, critical AI, and early English literature
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My conference paper "Imaginary Friend or Foe? Examining the Pitfalls of an AI Writing Partner" is finally published in the CEA Critic! In it, I tackle some of the problematic assumptions about AI and discuss why LLMs may be counterproductive for writing pedagogy. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Abstract The writing classroom has been dramatically affected by the introduction of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. Facing immense pressure to adapt to a challenging and changing educational landscape, some writing instructors have chosen to adopt LLMs as a teaching tool. However, perceiving this technology as a potential "partner" in the writing process involves various problematic assumptions about chatbot capabilities. For one, it requires a certain degree of confidence in LLMs, which are incapable of understanding information and produce output conforming to the Frankfurtian definition of "bullshit." While some scholars have suggested chatbot interactions may still be educational in a fictional capacity, this argument presumes that students understand the limits of AI veracity, and it is inconsistent with the way LLMs are actively marketed as trustworthy personas, despite their tendency to "hallucinate." Given the current abundance of misleading AI hype and marketing, this essay argues that using LLMs in the writing classroom may be counterproductive to students' development as writers and thinkers. As such, writing educators are invited to challenge the popular narrative of AI techno-determinism and embrace their power to steer this technology's course in higher education.
November 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Throwback to one morning in 2024. Roosters had nothing on this little guy. #caturday #catsky #floof
November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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#lastfourwatched #LetterboxdFriday #filmsky
Seeking Mavis Beacon John Candy: I Like Me Task Christine
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Me too. I have a student who draws one on every in-class assignment. I think this is a star doing a forward flip. ❤️
A doodle of a star doing gymnastics and saying “yippee”
October 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Canvas is down, and I am sympathetic to panicking students everywhere today, but I've had to send several e-mails in the last hour reminding my students that their physical textbook still works just fine.
October 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Thanks for showing up, Fort Myers! This was such a beautiful display of community and the best turnout I’ve seen so far. I caught a moment of slow traffic here, but most of the time, there was a lot of solidarity honking. #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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My emotional support #floof. I don’t know what I’d do without him. #Caturday #catsky
A white, pink-nosed kitty tucking his paws into his human’s hand and gazing at said human adoringly Same white kitty sleepily curled up around hand
October 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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A new cafe just opened in FTM, & at first, I was impressed. It’s hands down the prettiest cafe in town and expensively furnished. Then I noticed the TV screens promoting evangelical missions to South America, and I found this on their website.
What happened to the separation of church and coffee?
“Every cup goes beyond our counter – it reaches communities both near and far. When you support our local shop, you’re also supporting a network of ministries and global missions that make a real impact. Together, we’re brewing change one cup at a time.”
October 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
What About Bob?, Coraline, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Bill’s Big Pumpkins
October 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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This guy says weekends are for rest and not just catching up on work. And he’s a million years old, so he knows what’s up. #Caturday #catsky #floof
An elderly white floof falling asleep mid-pets against a hand. White floof stretched out on a sofa and winking at the camera.
September 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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One of my favorite things about advising FGCU’s English Honor Society is that I get to empower students and work with them on events like this panel we’re hosting next month. Our goal is to provide a space for students to voice their concerns and critiques about AI in higher ed. #sigmataudelta
The flyer for FGCU Sigma’s event: “Chat, Are We Cooked? A Humanities Student Panel on AI”
September 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
The Muppet Movie (5/5); A Rose for Emily (1/5); Hideo Kojima; In the Mood for Love (5/5)
September 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Listen, Mr. Whitey does not perform on command just because it’s #Caturday. It’s #Caturday when he says it is.
A fluffy, curmudgeonly-looking white cat Cat begrudgingly hamming it up a bit for the camera Close-up of cat’s squinty expression, which seems to say, “how dare you?”
September 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Teaching Zadie Smith's short story "Meet the President" (which takes place in a techno-dystopia) hits different in the age of AI. I highly recommend it for those wanting to tackle conversations about the role of technology in our world in their literature classes.
Excerpt from "Meet the President" by Zadie Smith: Not for the first time the boy was struck by the great human mysteries of this world. He was almost fifteen, almost a man, and the great human mysteries of this world were striking him with satisfying regularity, as was correct for his stage of development. (From the Pathways Global Institute prospectus: “As our students reach tenth grade they begin to gain insight into the great human mysteries of this world, and a special sympathy for locals, the poor, ideologues, and all those who have chosen to limit their own human capital in ways that it can be difficult at times for us to comprehend.”) From the age of six months, when he was first enrolled in the school, he had hit every mark that Pathways expected of its pupils—walking, talking, divesting, monetizing, programming, augmenting—and so it was all the more shocking to find himself face-to-face with an almost nine-year-old so absolutely blind, so lost, so developmentally debased. “This”—he indicated Felixstowe, from the beach with its turd castings and broken piers, to the empty-shell buildings and useless flood walls, up to the hill where his father hoped to expect him—“is nowhere. If you can’t move, you’re no one from nowhere. ‘Capital must flow.’ ”
September 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Quote post with your own very dramatic (or otherwise) black and white selfie.
An emo black-and-white me, with curls fanned and a very serious expression, in the early aughts.
September 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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I feel compelled to share this elderly weirdo with the world sometimes. I mean, look at these lines — high art. #WhiteyAppreciationWednesday #catsky
A white longhair cat sleeping and molded to the back and sides of an orange chair. Basically a liquid.
August 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Look at this distinguished gentleman on campus today. #fgcu #birdsky
A tall, long-necked bird standing in marsh.
August 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Recharging the old solar panels. #caturday #catsky #thepope
A fluffy white cat resting in the path of sunbeams on the floor
August 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #filmsky
Weapons (2.5); Night is Short, Walk On Girl (1.5); Casablanca (4.5); Petite Maman (4)
August 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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I needed a monster for my one of my online Composition course's mini-games, so I used the yeti from SkiFree. My students probably think I'm just a really bad artist. They will never know the FEAR from trying to outrun this guy only to be inevitably eaten whole.
The charmingly pixelated yeti from SkiFree along with the following game narrative: Style Troll says, "What are you doing here? This is my Canvas page. Get out of here." You tell the troll that you're supposed to challenge him. The troll laughs heartily. "So you think you have the writing style to defeat ME? We'll see! If you can win my challenge, I'll give you the combination to my safe of treasures. But if you mess up even once, I get to eat you." "What?! That's not fair," you say. "I'm just trying to pass this class and maybe get some extra credit, man. I'm not trying to get eaten."
August 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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I never get tired of marveling over this guy. Such fluff! Such ham! And so very old! What a gift.
A white, longhair cat reclining belly-up with front paws curled and his fluffy tail curled in front of his pink-beaned feet
August 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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My homie let me play with his professional camera, and I am literally so proud of my two minute-long career as a Photographer.
July 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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From Antigone by Sophocles
For even a clever man, there is no shame in learning more and not being rigid. You have seen how in winter's stormy streams the trees that bend can keep their branches safe while it's the stiffer ones that get uprooted. And a sailor who has his sheet hauled tight, and gives it no slack, is sure to capsize and sail along in an upside-down hull. So let this go and be willing to change. I may be young, but if I know anything, I can see that things always go better when a man just naturally knows what's right, or--since that is so often not the case-- when he can learn from others' good advice.
July 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Whitey Appreciation Wednesday. #catsky #floof

(standard disclaimer: I didn’t name him.)
A white cat with a paw gently placed on his human’s leg, staring thoughtfully off into the distance Same cat affectionately holding his human’s foot with both paws Same cat belly-up and stretched out on sofa, front paws tucked. Standard ham position. Close up of cat/ham’s face. His eyes are dark but full of whimsy because he is just a silly little guy.
July 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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My crepes suzette were fire.
An amateur making crepes Crepes suzette and caramelized apple tarte tatin Chocolate soufflés with creme anglaise
June 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM