@inproceedings{liu-august-2025-crafting,
    title = "From Crafting Text to Crafting Thought: Grounding Intelligent Writing Support to Writing Center Pedagogy",
    author = "Liu, Yijun  and
      August, Tal",
    editor = "Padmakumar, Vishakh  and
      Gero, Katy  and
      Wambsganss, Thiemo  and
      Sterman, Sarah  and
      Huang, Ting-Hao  and
      Zhou, David  and
      Chung, John",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing 2025)",
    month = may,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico, US",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.in2writing-1.5/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.in2writing-1.5",
    pages = "47--61",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-239-8",
    abstract = "Intelligent writing support tools have evolved from solving surface-level issues to collaborating and creating language with writers. Along with these new capabilities come concerns that generated fluent text can impact writers' processes in unintended ways, especially for students. In this workshop paper, we look to a similar transition that writing centers experienced over the last century, which shifted focus from fixing surface-level issues to maintaining student writer voices. We interviewed 10 current writing tutors and grounded their described practices with ideas proposed in writing center literature. We employed these strategies in developing an intelligent writing tool prototype. We describe the design of our tool and discuss potential evaluations along with how to foster deeper relationships between writers and writing centers using intelligent writing tools."
}