Lessons from Real-World Deployment of a Cognition-Preserving Writing Tool: Students Actively Engage with Critical Thinking and Planning Affordances
arXiv:2603.15777v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-supported writing tools show strong potential for scaffolding students’ learning of argumentative writing. Prior work has demonstrated the benefits of AI-supported cognitive scaffolds, such as idea exploration and argument refinement, but how these features function in authentic classroom settings remains underexplored. In this paper, we investigate the classroom integration of an AI-supported writing tool, VISAR. We deployed VISAR in an undergraduate writing course across three sections for one week each over two semesters […]