Writing Analytics 2026 Conference Schedule

Contacts: Alaina 813-367-6020, Norbert 856-952-7680, Morgan 727-455-5890

Location: USF St Pete Student Life Center (SLC) 131 6th Ave. South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701

Wednesday February 18

6:00 pm: Meet at Staybridge Suites to travel to optional cocktails and dinner

Thursday February 19

8:00 am: Breakfast (scones, muffins, coffee) Upload your presentation 

9:00 am: Opening Remarks, Morgan Gresham and Norbert Elliot

Collaborations and Roundtable Design, Alaina Tackitt and Megan Kane

9:30-10:20 am: Keynote Introduction: Jason Godfrey

  • Keynote: Laura Aull, Writing Analytics Today and Tomorrow 

10:20-10:35 am: Census of Pedagogy: Jason Godfrey and Jennifer Bronson, AI-Enabled Literacy Tools in U.S. Public Schools: A Descriptive Analysis of the Provider Landscape

10:35-10:45 am Break

10:50 am-12:00 pm: Roundtable 1: Student Responses, Digital Tools, and Applications (15-minute presentations, with questions and discussion) 

  • Shane Wood, Sherry Rankins-Robertson, Joel Bergholz, Rebecca Watkins, Amy Cicchino, and Matthew Bryan: Leveraging a Non-GenAI Chatbot to Support Cross-Unit Collaboration and Writing Pedagogy
  • Michael Chiappini, Helen Jeong, and Dana Walker: “I don’t use AI to write”: Stigma and the Methodological Challenges of Researching Students’ GenAI Use
  • Jungwan Yoon and Ben Markey,  ‘I can tell I wrote it’: Student Self-regulation and Composing Choices in AI-Supported Writing 
  • Suzanne Lane: “A Knowledge-Domain Taxonomy for Applying Writing Analytics Research to Portable Classroom-Based Analysis”

Noon-1:15 pm: Lunch, Soup Bar (vegan/non-vegan options)

1:20-2:00 pm: Invited Workshop and Discussion, Danielle Wetzel, Jungwan Yoon, Paul Beer, and Ben Markey, Re-envisioning University Assessment: Consensus Building with DocuScope Concordancer

2:00-3:15 pm: Roundtable 2: Designing and Implementing Digital Tools (15-minute presentations, with questions and discussion)

  • Ben Markey, The Effect of an AI-supported Writing Environment on Student Motivation and Rhetorical Awareness
  • Sarah Mansfield, Michael Laudenbach, and David Brown, From Intuition to Instruction: Using Sentiment Analysis to Teach About AI-Generated Writing
  • Suguru Ishizaki and David Kaufer, Adaptive Writing Instruction Platform: Expanding Access to AI-Enhanced Writing Development Through Online Courseware
  • Anuj Gupta and Brian Gogan: Notes on the WRSTL GenAI Prompt Library: Surfacing Role of Writing Analytics in GenAI Prompting Transfer

3:15-3:30 pm  Break

3:30-3:40 pm: Special Session: Sheryl Gomez, Eric Tucker, and Maria Elena Oliveri, Special Section: Remembering Robert J. Mislevy (Remote)

3:40-4:00 pm: Board Meeting (Everyone Invited)

  • Mike Palmquist, Founding Editor and Publisher, WAC Clearinghouse
  • Norbert Elliot, Alaina Tackitt, Review of 2025-2026
  • Duncan Buell and Brian Gogan, New Editors-in-Chief, Remarks

4:10 pm Day 1 Concludes

4:30 Walk to Cocktails and Dinner @ The Hangar Restaurant & Flight Lounge 540 1st Street South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701

Friday, February 20

8:00 am: Breakfast (scones, muffins, coffee)

9:00-9:10 New Initiatives: Djuddah Arthur Joost Leijen, Collaboration with the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW)

9:15-10:00 am Featured Workshop and Discussion: Jessica Nastal, Advancing Writing Analytics through Two-Year Colleges and Access-Oriented Institutions 

10:00-10:15 am: Workshop Respondent Dave Eubanks, How True Are Ratings?

10:15-10:25 am Break

10:30-11:45 am Roundtable 3, Part 1: Using Analytics to Inform Rhetorical Pedagogy (15 minute presentations, with questions and discussion)

  • Kyle Oddis, Modeling the Rhetorical Field: SIGNAL as an Analytics Method for Teaching and Observing Writing Processes
  • Anca Garcia, Mandy Sepulveda, David Sepulveda, Jason Palmer, and Daniel Butler, Enhancing Student Comprehension with AI: AI-Generated Genre Modeling in Support English Composition Classes
  • Megan Kane, Making Citation Visible: Classroom Insights from a Pilot Use of SourceMapper
  • Maria Elena Oliveri, Alex Rudniy, Kerrie Douglas, Peter Bermel, René Lawless, and Jill Folkerts, Applying Evidence-Centered Design and Analytics to Identify, Model, & Assess Trusted Artificial Intelligence Skills (Remote)

Noon-1:15 pm: Lunch, Soup Bar (vegan/non-vegan options)

1:15-2:15 Roundtable 3, Part 2: Using Analytics to Inform Rhetorical Pedagogy (15 minute presentations, with questions and discussion) 

  • Siân Alsop, A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Differences in the Written Feedback Given to Low and High Grade Papers: What Function, for what Purpose, and to Whom?
  • Tiffany Barney, Critical Generative AI Literacy in Writing Classrooms: Varied Responses in First-Year and Upper-Division Writing Courses 
  • Maria Elena Oliveri, Alex Rudniy, Mya Poe, and Wanju Huang, Writing Analytics as Stealth Performance Assessment: Applying Evidence-Centered Design to Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Assessment of Writing and Teamwork for Classroom-to-Workplace Transfer (Remote)

2:15-2:25 pm Collaborations, Volume 9 and Beyond: Alaina Tackitt<

2:30-3:00 pm The Future of Writing Analytics: All Conference Participants

3:00- 3:15 pm Concluding Remarks: Norbert Elliot, Alaina Tackitt, Morgan Gresham, Duncan Buell, Brian Gogan

3:15 pm Conference Adjourns  Continued Discussions: The Tavern at Bayboro 120 6th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701