This policy describes how authors and reviewers can engage with GenAI responsibly when seeking to write, compose, or review for CCDP.
CCDP is committed to ethical and responsible approaches to writing, research, and digital composition. We share core values with other presses and publication venues in the field of writing studies, including intellectual integrity, respect, originality, authenticity, inclusivity, fairness, innovation, and multimodality (see the CCC Generative AI policy and Computers and Composition’s “Declaration of Generative AI Use” statement).
CCDP is also committed to publishing innovative, multimodal digital books. One goal of the Press is to honor the traditional academic values of rigorous peer review and intellectual excellence, but also to combine such work with a commitment to innovative digital scholarship and expression.
Authors are responsible for the originality and intellectual integrity of their work. GenAI tools may be used in some ways to support scholarly writing, research, composition, and design of submissions to CCDP, but not to replace the labor involved with writing, research, composing, and design tasks.
Acceptable uses might include, for example, using GenAI for proofreading and editing, using GenAI for feedback on drafts or portions of drafts, or using GenAI for generating code that might support the design of a webtext or eBook. If authors plan to use GenAI for code or digital infrastructure elements, we encourage them to discuss their plans in advance with CCDP editors. We understand that there is a good deal of scholarship in the field about GenAI, and elements of the research or composing process on GenAI may use GenAI tools. In these cases, authors should disclose this technology use in a disclosure statement (see below).
All uses of GenAI tools should be disclosed and described, and GenAI tools or systems should not be listed as an author or co-author of a submission to CCDP. Please include a GenAI disclosure statement with all submissions, including submission of a pre-proposal, full prospectus, sample chapters or sections, full manuscripts, or media elements. For sample chapters or sections, full manuscripts, and media, the disclosure statement will be included in the work sent to reviewers for the purpose of providing context and may be published with the work if it is accepted with the press.
The GenAI disclosure statement should include the following:
Reviewers will assess submissions based on CCDP’s review criteria. An author’s use of GenAI, when appropriate and disclosed, should not factor into a reviewer decision.
To protect author confidentiality and intellectual property, reviewers may not input any portion of sample chapters, a full manuscript, media or design elements, visuals, transcripts, code, or other content submitted to CCDP into any GenAI platform.
In an effort to ensure that reviewer feedback is based on human expertise, reviewers may not use GenAI tools for drafting reviewer comments or notes.