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The Digital "To Kill A Mockingbird": Artificial Intelligence Biases In Courts, Vera Lúcia Raposo Jan 2024

The Digital "To Kill A Mockingbird": Artificial Intelligence Biases In Courts, Vera Lúcia Raposo

California Western International Law Journal

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Governance Policy Evaluation In The United States During The Pandemic: Nonpharmaceutical Interventions Or Else?, Danlin Yu, Shenyang Guo, Yuanyuan Yang, Linyun Fu, Timothy Mcbride, Ruopeng An Jan 2024

Governance Policy Evaluation In The United States During The Pandemic: Nonpharmaceutical Interventions Or Else?, Danlin Yu, Shenyang Guo, Yuanyuan Yang, Linyun Fu, Timothy Mcbride, Ruopeng An

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Scientific evidence suggests that nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) effectively curb the spread of COVID-19 before a pharmaceutical solution. Implementing these interventions also significantly affects regular socioeconomic activities and practices of social, racial, and political justice. Local governments often face conflicting goals during policymaking. Striking a balance among competing goals during a global pandemic is a fine science of governance. How well state governments consume the scientific evidence and maintain such a balance remains less understood. This study employs a set of Bayesian hierarchical models to evaluate how state governments in the United States use scientific evidence to balance the fighting against …

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Research On Multiscale Openstreetmap In China: Data Quality Assessment With Ewm-Topsis And Gdp Modeling, Chuqiao Han, Binbin Lu, Jianghua Zheng, Danlin Yu, Shudan Zheng Jan 2024

Research On Multiscale Openstreetmap In China: Data Quality Assessment With Ewm-Topsis And Gdp Modeling, Chuqiao Han, Binbin Lu, Jianghua Zheng, Danlin Yu, Shudan Zheng

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a voluntary platform designed to provide free and up-to-date geographic data. Since OSM is based on multisource geographic data provided by the public, the quality of the data has become a concern of researchers. In this study, a unified measure for evaluating OSM data quality was constructed, and the entropy weight method (EWM) and Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) model were used to evaluate the quality of multiscale OSM data in China from 2014 to 2020. In addition to evaluating the data quality, the use of OSM data quality index factors in …

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Early Oligocene Record Of An “Iceberg Alley” In The Weddell Sea From Quartz Sand Microtextural Analysis At Odp Site 696, Victoria Hojnacki, Sandra Passchier Jan 2024

Early Oligocene Record Of An “Iceberg Alley” In The Weddell Sea From Quartz Sand Microtextural Analysis At Odp Site 696, Victoria Hojnacki, Sandra Passchier

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The greenhouse to icehouse transition at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary (34 Ma) marked the appearance of continental-scale glaciation in Antarctica. The material recovered from Ocean Drilling Program Site 696 is the only record spanning this major climatic shift in the Weddell Sea region. Using scanning electron microscopy, quartz microtextures in 13 samples across the Eocene-Oligocene transition were analyzed to understand the degree of glacial modification and the transportation history of the >150 µm material. The quartz grains were visually grouped, characterized, and interpreted by grain outline, relief, and surface microtextures. Glacial textures are present throughout the entire interval (34.4–33.2 Ma), with …

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Exploring The Potential Of Openstreetmap Data In Regional Economic Development Evaluation Modeling, Zhe Wang, Jianghua Zheng, Chuqiao Han, Binbin Lu, Danlin Yu, Juan Yang, Linzhi Han Jan 2024

Exploring The Potential Of Openstreetmap Data In Regional Economic Development Evaluation Modeling, Zhe Wang, Jianghua Zheng, Chuqiao Han, Binbin Lu, Danlin Yu, Juan Yang, Linzhi Han

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

In regional development studies, GDP serves as an important indicator for evaluating the developing levels of a region. However, due to statistical methods and possible human-induced interfering factors, GDP is also a commonly criticized indicator for less accurately assessing regional economic development in a dynamic environment, especially during a globalized era. Moreover, common data collection approaches are often challenging to obtain in real-time, and the assessments are prone to inaccuracies. This is especially true in economically underdeveloped regions where data are often less frequently or accurately collected. In recent years, Nighttime Light (NTL) data have emerged as a crucial supplementary …

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R. V. J.J., Judicial Discretion And The Charter, Lisa Dufraimont Jan 2024

R. V. J.J., Judicial Discretion And The Charter, Lisa Dufraimont

The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference

In R. v. J.J., the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the new Criminal Code admissibility rules for the complainant’s private records held by the accused and the new procedural regime governing admissibility of private records and evidence of the complainant’s other sexual activity. The Court considered claims that these provisions violated section 7 and section 11(c) and 11(d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom, and a six-member majority rejected all these claims. This paper analyzes a key theme in the majority judgment: discretion. The majority emphasized that one reason the new regime complies with the Charter is that …

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Hurricane Risk Perceptions And Evacuation Decision-Making In The Postvaccine Era Of Covid-19 In U.S. Coastal States Impacted By North Atlantic Hurricanes, Jennifer Collins, Elizabeth A. Dunn, Rashida K. Jones, Amy Polen, Nagashree R. Rao, Stephen Murphy, Mark Welford Jan 2024

Hurricane Risk Perceptions And Evacuation Decision-Making In The Postvaccine Era Of Covid-19 In U.S. Coastal States Impacted By North Atlantic Hurricanes, Jennifer Collins, Elizabeth A. Dunn, Rashida K. Jones, Amy Polen, Nagashree R. Rao, Stephen Murphy, Mark Welford

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

During peak disease transmission in 2021, the compounding threat posed by the pandemic and hurricane season required coastal states to understand evacuation behaviors during a major hurricane to inform the planning process. While research relating to hurricane evacuation behavior and perceptions of risk has increased since the start of the pandemic, there is minimal understanding of how perceptions have changed now the COVID-19 vaccine is available. A total of 1075 individuals across seven U.S. coastal states participated in a study on evacuation intentions postvaccine availability. Findings revealed that most survey participants (50.9%) preferred to stay home if a major hurricane …

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Taste And Learning In The Gustatory Cortex, Martin Raymond Jan 2024

Taste And Learning In The Gustatory Cortex, Martin Raymond

Alternative Theses and Dissertations (AETDs)

This research investigates the organization of taste representations in the gustatory cortex (GC) through two experiments utilizing miniscope imaging in mice. The first experiment focuses on conditioned taste aversion (CTA) and reveals that taste representations in GC are heavily dominated by palatability, with shifts in representational space occurring as a function of learning and extinction. The second experiment explores the interrelation of aversive stimuli, the impact of novelty on taste representations, and the role of somatosensory feedback. Findings suggest that familiarity and palatability emerge as positive signals with experience, shaping taste representations in GC. The study contributes to a nuanced …

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Southeast South Dakota Experiment Farm Annual Progress Report, 2024, Southeast South Dakota Research Farm Jan 2024

Southeast South Dakota Experiment Farm Annual Progress Report, 2024, Southeast South Dakota Research Farm

Agricultural Experiment Station and Research Farm Annual Reports

This is an annual report of the research program at the Southeast South Dakota Research Farm in cooperation with South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and the SDSU College of Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Sciences and has special significance for those engaged in agriculture and the agriculturally related businesses in the ten county area of Southeast South Dakota. The results shown are not necessarily complete or conclusive. Interpretations given are tentative because additional data resulting from continuation of these experiments may result in conclusions different from those based on any one year.

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Limitations And Potential Dark Sides Of Transformational Leadership: The Case Of The Founder And Former Ceo Of Theranos, Wenjuan Guo, Junnan Cui, Lucy Arendt, Jamie O'Brien Jan 2024

Limitations And Potential Dark Sides Of Transformational Leadership: The Case Of The Founder And Former Ceo Of Theranos, Wenjuan Guo, Junnan Cui, Lucy Arendt, Jamie O'Brien

Faculty Publications - Accounting

Transformational leadership is widely recognized as an effective leadership style; however, it is important to recognize its potential misuse, where it may serve a leader’s self-interests at the expense of others, both inside and outside the organization. In this article, we present an experiential exercise that uses the case of Theranos and its founder and former CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, to highlight the limitations and potential dark sides of transformational leadership. In this exercise, students watch three YouTube videos about Holmes, identify the characteristics of Holmes that match transformational leadership, and discuss issues with her leadership style. This exercise can be …

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Citizen Empowerment As A Police Force Multiplier: Reproducing Social Domination Through A 21st Century Personal Safety App, Justin Turner, Travis Milburn Jan 2024

Citizen Empowerment As A Police Force Multiplier: Reproducing Social Domination Through A 21st Century Personal Safety App, Justin Turner, Travis Milburn

Faculty Publications – Sociology and Anthropology

Citizen is a digital mapping platform and personal safety app that boasts over 10 million users in the United States. Through the platform, users can report crimes, map safe routes, or rely on the app’s other functions to protect themselves from dangerous situations. Sold on a promise of empowerment, Citizen markets itself as a 21st century technology capable of repairing the ills of our social world. In this article we analyze how Citizen taps into the desire for control and safety and urges its users to actively protect their own communities. As such, we suggest that while surveillant in nature, …

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A Critique Of Guardianship Theory From The Perspective Of Catholic Thought: The Tension Between The Duty To Protect And Preservation Of Legal Autonomy, Lucia A. Silecchia Jan 2024

A Critique Of Guardianship Theory From The Perspective Of Catholic Thought: The Tension Between The Duty To Protect And Preservation Of Legal Autonomy, Lucia A. Silecchia

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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Christianity And The Liberal(Ish) Income Tax, Andrew T. Hayashi Jan 2024

Christianity And The Liberal(Ish) Income Tax, Andrew T. Hayashi

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

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Cheaters Never Prosper: The Legal Liability And Ethical Responsibility Of “Homework Help” Sites, Valerie Flugge Jan 2024

Cheaters Never Prosper: The Legal Liability And Ethical Responsibility Of “Homework Help” Sites, Valerie Flugge

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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Applying Steve Jobs’S Insights On Innovation, Leadership, And Technology Toward An Apple-Inspired Law School, Byron G. Stier Jan 2024

Applying Steve Jobs’S Insights On Innovation, Leadership, And Technology Toward An Apple-Inspired Law School, Byron G. Stier

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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Did The Butler Do It? A Theory Of Worthy Work In The Remains Of The Day, Christopher Wong Michaelson Ph.D. Jan 2024

Did The Butler Do It? A Theory Of Worthy Work In The Remains Of The Day, Christopher Wong Michaelson Ph.D.

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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Harmonizing Divergent Purposes Of Punishment In Jewish Criminal Law: Integrating Contemporary Religious, Criminological, And Legal Perspectives, Jonathan Hasson, Abraham Tennenbaum Jan 2024

Harmonizing Divergent Purposes Of Punishment In Jewish Criminal Law: Integrating Contemporary Religious, Criminological, And Legal Perspectives, Jonathan Hasson, Abraham Tennenbaum

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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West Virginia V. Epa, A New Major Questions Doctrine Or Maintaining The Status Quo? An Application To Net Neutrality, David Bender Jan 2024

West Virginia V. Epa, A New Major Questions Doctrine Or Maintaining The Status Quo? An Application To Net Neutrality, David Bender

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

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Dystopian Young Adult Literature As Waypoints To Censorship Across Time And Space, Shelby Boehm, Savannah Bean Jan 2024

Dystopian Young Adult Literature As Waypoints To Censorship Across Time And Space, Shelby Boehm, Savannah Bean

Faculty Publications – English

We advocate for the reading of young adult literature (YAL) as a means for justice-oriented education, and we also recognize how the recent surge in challenges to youth-centered texts in the U.S. attempts to limit such work in classrooms. In response, we wondered about the ways in which YAL offers pathways for critically framing and situating global concerns, such as censorship, in time and space as a means of entering public conversations on issues. In this article, we offer waypoints as a critical reading framework for approaching sociopolitical issues in YAL as gateways for shifts in perspectives, orientations, and actions …

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Subjective Costs Of Tax Compliance, Jonathan H. Choi, Ariel Jurow Kleiman Jan 2024

Subjective Costs Of Tax Compliance, Jonathan H. Choi, Ariel Jurow Kleiman

Minnesota Law Review Vols. 106:2 onward (2021-present)

This Article introduces and estimates the “subjective costs” of tax compliance, which are costs of tax compliance that people experience directly and individually. To measure these costs, we conducted a survey experiment assessing how much taxpayers would pay to reduce the unpleasantness associated with filing a tax return. The experiment revealed that taxpayers are more concerned about inadvertent mistakes in their tax filings than the time spent on compliance. Respondents also only ascribed meaningful value to eliminating all tax compliance work; they ascribed essentially no value to marginal time savings. Additionally, taxpayers were indifferent between simplification services offered by a …

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In Defense Of Pickering: When A Public Employee's Social Media Speech, Particularly Political Speech, Conflicts With Their Employer's Public Service, Abby Ward Jan 2024

In Defense Of Pickering: When A Public Employee's Social Media Speech, Particularly Political Speech, Conflicts With Their Employer's Public Service, Abby Ward

Minnesota Law Review Vols. 106:2 onward (2021-present)

With the rise of social media and the United States’ increasing political polarization, public employees take to social media to post about political issues such as race and policing. But when public employees make posts on political issues in an inflammatory or controversial way, public employers often discipline or fire the employee, fearing disruption and community backlash. The result is First Amendment litigation involving social media speech, an uncharted territory for courts. When a public employee is disciplined for engaging in political speech on social media, courts usually analyze the employee’s First Amendment claim under the Pickering balancing test. This …

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Feasibility In Embedding Charismatic Leadership Strategies Into Social Work Applications, Lana Grinev Jan 2024

Feasibility In Embedding Charismatic Leadership Strategies Into Social Work Applications, Lana Grinev

Student Publications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine whether charismatic leadership strategies can be successfully implemented within structures, systems and tasks for social workers to increase case management successes, particularly client well-being, given that the six key charismatic leadership traits align with presented professionally bound ethical expectations. Design/methodology/approach – A short generic qualitative review was done over fifteen publications, emphasizing the effects of charismatic leadership in domestic and foreign occupational domains. Findings – Methodological, thematic and theoretical analyses show that charismatic leadership strategies are active in relevant social work domains with positive participant impacts. Practical implications – The …

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Exploring The Contribution Of Visually-Impaired Musicians To The Evolution Of The Spanish Guitar., Marco Ramelli Jan 2024

Exploring The Contribution Of Visually-Impaired Musicians To The Evolution Of The Spanish Guitar., Marco Ramelli

Conference papers

This article delves into the significant contributions of blind musicians to the evolution of the Spanish guitar. It begins by examining the presence of blind musicians before the 1800s, highlighting their connection to plucked instruments, the monopoly of street music maintained by the Brotherhood of the Blind, and their influence on traditional music and poetry. The discussion then explores the political motivations behind the dissolution of the brotherhood. The article continues by analyzing the 19th-century contributions of blind musicians, including the establishment of schools for the blind, the introduction of Braille, and the development of pedagogical methods for teaching the …

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Therapist Self-Disclosure In Teletherapy Early In The Covid-19 Pandemic: Associations With Real Relationship And Traumatic Distress, Xiaochen Luo, Katie Aafjes-Van Doorn, Vera Békés, Tracy A. Prout, Leon Hoffman Jan 2024

Therapist Self-Disclosure In Teletherapy Early In The Covid-19 Pandemic: Associations With Real Relationship And Traumatic Distress, Xiaochen Luo, Katie Aafjes-Van Doorn, Vera Békés, Tracy A. Prout, Leon Hoffman

Counseling Psychology

The usefulness of therapists' self-disclosure (TSD) in psychotherapy remains controversial, and little is known regarding the potential risks and benefits of TSD in times of global crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic and in teletherapy. We examined two independent samples of therapists (N = 1705; Study 1) and patients (N = 772; Study 2) on their perceptions of increases in TSD during the transition to teletherapy early in the COVID-19 pandemic (spring 2020). Approximately 20% of therapists and 14% of patients reported perceptions of definite increases in TSD. Therapists' top reasons for increased TSD were therapists' heightened distress …

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Structure, Status, And Span: Gender Differences In Co-Authorship Networks Across 16 Region-Subject Pairs (2009–2013), Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Molly M. King, Isabella Cingolani Jan 2024

Structure, Status, And Span: Gender Differences In Co-Authorship Networks Across 16 Region-Subject Pairs (2009–2013), Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Molly M. King, Isabella Cingolani

Sociology

Global and team science approaches are on the rise, as is attention to the network underpinnings of gender disparities in scientific collaboration. Many network studies of men’s and women’s collaboration rely on bounded case studies of single disciplines and/or single countries and limited measures related to the collaborative process. We deploy network analysis on the scholarly database Scopus to gain insight into gender inequity across regions and subject areas and to better understand contextual underpinnings of stagnancy. Using a dataset of over 1.2 million authors and 144 million collaborative relationships, we capture international and unbounded co-authorship networks that include intra- …

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An Evaluation Of Features Extracted From Facial Images In The Context Of Binary Age Classification, Malik Awais Khan, Aurelia Power, Peter Corcoran, Christina Thorpe Jan 2024

An Evaluation Of Features Extracted From Facial Images In The Context Of Binary Age Classification, Malik Awais Khan, Aurelia Power, Peter Corcoran, Christina Thorpe

Conference Papers

Age verification via facial images is used to enhance security, ensure online child safety, and manage access control with many approaches using classification models. However, many existing classification approaches face generalisation challenges due to homogenous racial nature of datasets. Moreover, many approaches fail to explicitly address the predictive potential of extracted facial features. To address the lack of racial diversity we selected representative samples from four different benchmark datasets: UTK-Face, Fg-Net, Morph and All-Age-Faces. Subsequently, we examined the predictive potential of local, global and hybrid sets of facial features. We extracted local features using two types of Local Binary Pattern …

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Utilizing Text-Generative Ai For Creating Oral Reading Fluency Probes, Mackenzie D. Sidwell, Landon W. Bonner, Kayla Bates-Brantley, Shengtian Wu Jan 2024

Utilizing Text-Generative Ai For Creating Oral Reading Fluency Probes, Mackenzie D. Sidwell, Landon W. Bonner, Kayla Bates-Brantley, Shengtian Wu

Faculty Publications – Psychology

Oral reading fluency probes are essential for reading assessment, intervention, and progress monitoring. Due to the limited options for choosing oral reading fluency probes, it is important to utilize all available resources such as generative AI like ChatGPT to create oral reading fluency probes. The purpose of this article is to describe how to use AI through ChatGPT to create customizable reading passages comparable with that of oral reading fluency probes. Using readability estimates, the ChatGPT-generated passages can be tailored to suit for specific grade levels, similar to how current publishers design oral reading fluency probes for the market. The …

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Introducing Emerging Library Instructors To Information Literacy Instruction Through Programmatic Instruction, Alicia G. Vaandering, Amanda K. Izenstark, Colin Braun, Erin Cunningham, Reina Kirkendall, Laura Marasco Jan 2024

Introducing Emerging Library Instructors To Information Literacy Instruction Through Programmatic Instruction, Alicia G. Vaandering, Amanda K. Izenstark, Colin Braun, Erin Cunningham, Reina Kirkendall, Laura Marasco

Public Services Faculty Publications

This case study explores the use of programmatic instruction as library instruction training for MLIS students employed at a university reference desk. This study has three primary aims. First, it endeavors to outline how programmatic one-shot instruction sessions, taught primarily for 100-level courses, can be used to provide MLIS students with an introduction to information literacy instruction. By examining longstanding programmatic instruction at the University of Rhode Island, we provide examples of how this model has evolved over decades in response to changes in staffing, budgets, and the information needs of academic departments. Second, this case study shares the perspectives …

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Scaffolding The Academic Writing Process, Jennifer Browdy Jan 2024

Scaffolding The Academic Writing Process, Jennifer Browdy

GHEA21 Open Educational Resources

In the AI age, it is essential to break down writing assignments into stages that can be assessed individually, so that as teachers we have an opportunity to intervene early if we see students getting off track in any way. This LAS Guide presentation will unpack the scaffolding necessary to guide students in producing high-quality writing in the humanities based on textual analysis, including: • Individual close reading and collaborative note-taking • In-class discussion techniques that require careful listening • Crafting both open-ended discussion questions and research questions • Research-based oral presentations • Collaborative and individual draft work, from response …

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"A Liberal Arts Guide To Academic Writing In The Age Of Ai: Crafting Meaning, Empowering Students ", Tara Keenan Jan 2024

"A Liberal Arts Guide To Academic Writing In The Age Of Ai: Crafting Meaning, Empowering Students ", Tara Keenan

GHEA21 Open Educational Resources

The 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 these in our courses, so it is incumbent on us to establish norms and best practices regarding their 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 (i) practical lessons that address genAI and LLMs and …

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