A Study on the Response of College Writing Education in the ChatGPT Era: Centered on the re-awareness and improvement of process-based writing

As ChatGPT grows, skepticism toward writing education is being raised on one side. If we look into this skepticism, we can discover a result-oriented perspective on writing. This made us realize and reflect on the shortcomings in the practice of process-based writing in the current writing education. The reason why process-based writing has become common in education is because it can very well realize the purpose of writing education. Even in the ChatGPT era, process-based writing must be faithfully implemented as long as the purpose of writing education does not change. The writing process is carried out within the writer, and each process is organically connected to each other throughout the writing process. Therefore, if even part of the process is left to ChatGPT, the educational effectiveness of writing classes is likely to be reduced. Future research exploring ways to utilize ChatGPT in writing education must carefully consider whether the effects that can be obtained from such a method are greater than those obtained from traditional process-based writing. Paradoxically, the most important thing for writing education in the era of cutting-edge ChatGPT is to strengthen the traditional process-based writing education. Among the ways to improve process-based writing, one particularly important thing is to enhance the dynamism of the writing process by activating the writer’s self-experience in writing.