Most would see uncreative writing as just plagiarism, but uncreative writing could be a way to actually recreative and make something totally new. Like the example of Transcribing an episode from TV. You can create a collaborative poem just by everyone contributing to a group chat. This can be a way to take create something very beautiful just by using phrases that did not have a purpose to become a creative work of literature. Here is an example of a collaborative poem made from random youtube clips.
Uncreative Writing in the Classroom is an article written by Kenneth Goldsmith. Goldsmith is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and teaches a course called “Uncreative Writing”. In this course, Goldsmith aims to teach students the possibilities of creating something of your own and expressing yourself in other ways than just through literary contexts. He gives his students assignments which are not of the “norm” to give college students. Some of the assignments include reusing, copying, or repurposing information that has already been published. For example in reusing, he has his students “re-type five pages” and that was all of the instruction they got on how to complete the assignment. In this exercise most students would re-type things such as menus or short stories, and then further critiquing by asking what kind of paper was used. Asking this question triggered a meaning or interpretation of who you actually were. Goldsmith was trying to get his students to think outside the box, and interpret this assignment in any way they wanted to. Some other examples of assignments he has given involves things such as transcribing an audio tape, or creating “retro graffiti” within the school grounds, or anywhere they wanted to. His course is designed to get students thinking and creating things past the average student. Uncreative writing is a good way to prepare students for life after college, because thinking creatively and thinking “outside-the-box” is what lands jobs and sets you aside from everyone else.
Justin Zerbee
Kendall Mahony
Chris Carder
Tyler Nigro
A bot is software that is designed to automate the kinds of tasks you would usually do on your own, like making a dinner reservation, adding an appointment to your calendar or fetching and displaying information. The increasingly common form of bots, chatbots, simulate conversation. A little know fact is that chatbots where perfected by the porn industry to lure in customers. A lot of people interact with bots daily, sometimes when they don't even realize it. Siri is a well known bot. Siri is able to write things in your calendar and look up any information you tell Siri too. As bot technology improves, the thinking is that bots will be able to automate all kinds of things; perhaps even something as complex as your taxes. Other bots that have been found to be popular are “Twitter Bots”. Twitter bots have many purposes, same would be considered as spam, others have a more comedic approach, and a lot present real time facts. Twitter bots are programs set to run in a certain time frame you want them to. Twitter Bots can collect information, respond to users, and even post images.
Along with twitter bots, there is other forms of AI, like self generating poems, that can make some meaning for literature. When it comes to online works of literature and AI, people tend to be a bit hesitant on the actual meaning of things. Some believe that something which is self-generated is unable to produce anything with meaning behind it. This leads us to the question, what does it mean for something to have meaning? This open us up to a wide variety of possible definitions when, in reality, the word “meaning” means something different to everyone. The actual definition of the word “meaning” is, the intent to communicate something that is not directly expressed. There are many computer-generated works of literature which have meaning behind them; for example, in Taroko Gorge there is a line that reads, “The forest lines the basins”. This is a form of poetry, and proves that coded messages can have meaning to them instead of just being a bunch of random words thrown together.
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Most would see uncreative writing as just plagiarism, but uncreative writing could be a way to actually recreative and make something totally new. Like the example of Transcribing an episode from TV. You can create a collaborative poem just by everyone contributing to a group chat. This can be a way to take create something very beautiful just by using phrases that did not have a purpose to become a creative work of literature. Here is an example of a collaborative poem made from random youtube clips.
Uncreative Writing in the Classroom is an article written by Kenneth Goldsmith. Goldsmith is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and teaches a course called “Uncreative Writing”. In this course, Goldsmith aims to teach students the possibilities of creating something of your own and expressing yourself in other ways than just through literary contexts. He gives his students assignments which are not of the “norm” to give college students. Some of the assignments include reusing, copying, or repurposing information that has already been published. For example in reusing, he has his students “re-type five pages” and that was all of the instruction they got on how to complete the assignment. In this exercise most students would re-type things such as menus or short stories, and then further critiquing by asking what kind of paper was used. Asking this question triggered a meaning or interpretation of who you actually were. Goldsmith was trying to get his students to think outside the box, and interpret this assignment in any way they wanted to. Some other examples of assignments he has given involves things such as transcribing an audio tape, or creating “retro graffiti” within the school grounds, or anywhere they wanted to. His course is designed to get students thinking and creating things past the average student. Uncreative writing is a good way to prepare students for life after college, because thinking creatively and thinking “outside-the-box” is what lands jobs and sets you aside from everyone else. 
