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Publication A Liberal Arts Guide to Academic Writing in the Age of AI: Crafting Meaning, Empowering Students. Making the Most of Artificial Intelligence Tools to Enhance the Liberal Arts Approach in Academic Writing(2024) Campbell, Christin; Keenan-Thomson, Tara; Lindo, Theresa; Romano, Nicoletta; Rutt, AndrewThe advent of generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) and large language models (LLMs) will require a sea change in how and what we teach students of all levels. Research strongly suggests that most university students are regularly using it in our courses, so it is incumbent on us to establish norms and best practices in our classes regarding AI use, ethics, and literacy. This strengthening guide provides modular lesson plans for an advanced university-level English Composition course that focuses on the teaching of critical reading and writing as well as information literacy. This guide provides: • practical lessons that address genAI and LLMs and its interaction with Liberal Arts approaches to teaching and learning; • genAI tools to use and suggestions about when to use them in class; and • assignments and assessment rubrics. We argue that the appropriate response to advancements in these technologies lies in the foregrounding of the liberal arts approach and the direct use and exploration of these new tools to enhance that perspective. This requires a shift in teaching that moves from product to process and focuses on critical reading and writing in shorter collaborative bursts that build toward a final written project rather than production of full-length assigned papers to be completed by students at home on their own. This guide was written by an interdisciplinary team of instructors and reference and instruction library professionals at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. The project was completed in partnership with Parami University through the Open Society University Network and supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations.Publication Integrating Information Literacy in a Communication Writing Course(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020) López, Antonio; Piotto, Livia; Macias-Gutiérrez, ElizabethPublication Insights into Faculty-Librarian Collaborations around the Framework: Findings from the 2018 Co-Design Survey.(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020) Stöpel, Michael; Furno, Christine; Spasov, Krasimir; Zargaryan, Tatev; Piotto, LiviaPublication What’s behind That? Facts and Statistics Supporting Public Service Announcements(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020) Piotto, LiviaPublication Researching Rome: The Librarian as Research Mediator(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020) Piotto, LiviaPublication Evaluating News through the Exploration of Bias(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2020) Piotto, LiviaPublication Zotero Smoothie: Blending Citations into Annotated Bibliographies and Literature Review(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2021) Piotto, LiviaPublication Librarians and information literacy instruction in Morocco, Italy, and France during the pandemic: reflecting on challenges and future opportunities(Routledge, 2023) Stöpel, Michael; Ḥassānī, ʻAzīz; Piotto, LiviaPublication Intercultural dialogue: fighting infodemic(Routledge, 2023) Kanižaj, Igor; Piotto, LiviaPublication Interim leadership in a crisis(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2023) Piotto, LiviaThe interim head librarian assumed the role of reassuring the staff that the library was not left rudderless and that someone was ready to step in and move the library forward. At the same time, she had to acknowledge that a period of mourning was necessary for everyone in the team and that everyone was coping with grief in different ways.