Dr. Jeanne Law

Director of First-Year Composition and Professor of English

I am Professor of English and the Director of First-Year Writing at Kennesaw State. I earned my Ph.D in rhetoric and composition from Georgia State University, specializing in post-process composition theory and histiographic rhetorical praxis. My research finds further loci in diverse sub-fields of language study, including digital literacies and civil rights oral histories. In the past year, I have also presented and published extensively on generative AI assistants, developing a rhetorical Methods of prompt engineering and advocating for collaborative, ethical human-machine writing outputs. I serve as a faculty mentor for the 2024 AAC&U's Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum. I also teach prompt engineering in KSU Master's in Professional Writing Program.

My public scholarship includes collaborative work with veterans of the Atlanta Student Movement as well as collaborations that will help bring useful and ethical generative AI to personal and professional writing spaces through Rhetorical Prompt Engineering methods.

Read a recent article about my AI research. Watch a recent workshop I delivered on teaching with generative AI.

Check out my co-authored text for first-year writing, The Writer's Loop.

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Concentration Area(s)
- Applied Writing
- Composition and Rhetoric
MAPW Courses Taught
- PRWR 6000 Intro to Professional Writing
- PRWR 6255 Grant & Proposal Writing
- PRWR 7550 Advanced Applied Writing
- PRWR 7810 Research Methods for Writers
Select Publications

See webpage.

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