Co-Writing with AI: An Empirical Study of Diverse Academic Writing Workflows

arXiv:2604.25389v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite AI tools becoming increasingly embedded in academic practice, little is known about how university students integrate them into their writing processes. We examine how students engage with AI across different writing tasks, and how this engagement is shaped by individual factors including AI literacy, writing confidence, trust, authorship concerns, and motivation. Study~1 surveys 107 UK university students to map task-specific and co-occu