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Thinking with the Machine: Generative AI, Cognitive Processes, Writing Practices and Human Agency in Education

2026-07-09

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This integrative literature review examines how generative artificial intelligence is shaping human thinking, cognitive processes and writing practices, with a sustained focus on education across schools, universities, adult learning and professional settings. It considers how AI-supported composing alters the ways writers plan, generate, organise, revise and evaluate text, and how these changes reshape cognition,...

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Literature Corpus work: 23f7f36f-2cf8-5edf-8108-d6b1b64c8b45
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202607.0690.v1

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