“Good Prompts are Sufficient to Produce Good Written Products ✨ Effective Use of Generative AI in Writing Requires Critical AI Literacy”

Kapitel i bok, 2026

The internet abounds with resources promising effortless academic writing through generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), positioning prompt engineering as a shortcut to producing high-quality texts. This chapter challenges that assumption. Framing writing as a technical problem with a technical solution perpetuates a reductive view of writing as a product to be manufactured, rather than a complex social and cognitive process of meaning-making. Students who adopt this plug-and-play approach risk bypassing the challenging but essential work of thought development, undermining both their learning and their identities as writers. To address this, we propose Critical GenAI Literacy (C-GAI-L) as a key component of academic writing instruction in higher education. Grounded in metacognitive awareness and self-regulated learning, C-GAI-L equips students to engage responsibly and effectively with GenAI while remaining the primary agents of their own thinking and writing.