Critical discourse analysis of 49 educator Reddit posts identifies seven forms of academic erasure in AI-supported writing¶
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q2 i? Thematic analysis of 49 Reddit posts by educators identified seven themes of erasure: epistemic labour, authentic voice, educator efficacy, trust, pedagogical method, the human-AI boundary, and institutional legibility. → Chinomso Nwagboso & Sunday Atuba 2026
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Chinomso Nwagboso & Sunday Atuba 2026¶
Chinomso Nwagboso & Sunday Atuba. (2026). Academic erasure: the disappearance of complexity under AI-supported writing. Teaching in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2026.2707601
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Qualitative critical discourse analysis of 49 Reddit posts (P1–P49) drawn from a candidate pool of approximately 380 posts, coded deductively with academic literacies concepts and inductively for new categories. The analysis "identifies recurring patterns in how educators describe, interpret, and emotionally respond" to AI-generated writing, yielding seven themes; the authors state the results do not quantify prevalence.
"the analysis identifies recurring patterns in how educators describe, interpret, and emotionally respond to the emergence of AI-generated student writing. Each theme captures a distinct dimension of this loss"
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