Roslyn Petelin

Roslyn the designer and convenor of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) WRITE101x English Grammar and Style, which has been running on the edX program at The University of Queensland since 2014 and has attracted close to 800,000 students.
She previously taught in the award-winning post-graduate program in Writing, Editing, and Publishing that I designed and established in 2000. She also taught writing and speech communication at the Queensland University of Technology and at Cornell University.
She edited the Australian Journal of Communication from 1988-2013 and co-wrote The Professional Writing Guide: Writing Well and Knowing Why with Marsha Durham and Professional Communication: Principles and Applications with Peter Putnis.
In 2016, Allen and Unwin published her latest book, How Writing Works: A Field Guide to Effective Writing.

AI/Machine Learning

The Macquarie Dictionary’s Word of the Year is ‘AI Slop’ – and the Collins went with ‘vibe coding’

- November 25, 2025 4 MIN READ

AI slop is Macquarie Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2025. It also won the people’s choice vote. The dictionary defines the word as “low-quality content created by generative AI [artificial intelligence], often containing errors, and not requested by the user”. I’ve spent the last year researching the solicitous, duplicitous and ubiquitous generative AI –… Read more »