Post-Process but Not Post-Writing: Large Language Models and a Future for Composition Pedagogy

[S]tarting with a blurry copy of unoriginal work isn't a good way to create original work. If you're a writer, you will write a lot of unoriginal work before you write something original. And the time and effort expended on that unoriginal work isn't wasted; on the contrary, I would suggest that it is precisely what enables you to eventually create something original. The hours spent choosing the right word and rearranging sentences to better follow one another are what teach you how meaning is conveyed by prose... If students never have to write essays that we have all read before, they will never gain the skills needed to write something that we have never read.