Hi Lyle, As a former English teacher, the issue of plagiarism was an recurring challenge. New we have computers that will write essays, computers that will correct essays, and computers that will check for plagiarism. I see TV commercials where an employee writes a report at the last minute, and the supervisor prepares his presentation at the last minute. The solution? I found topics, often at the local level, where computers had not gone.
Yes, local topics can be tough to find, but they are available. Often, we would teach students how to research community issues. Once, when I taught in London, a guest speaker spoke about the Elgin Marbles. Students had to correctly summarize his presentation. My department also assigned sources that had to be used. For research papers, we would help students to correctly cite the sources, within the classroom. We then worked with students through their rough drafts, so they learned how to correctly incorporate the sources into the essays. We had students submit their notes as well. The key was to teach the students how to show their work and to limit the pool of sources that could be used. We also taught students writing style, and why it mattered. For instance, Time and Newsweek have their own styles, as does AI. It was very easy to pick up on the style because a student's writing voice differs so much from that of the magazine. Oh, we would also take a few paragraphs from an essay and load them into a plagiarism check. Pretty easy! Recently, I asked an AI platform if it wrote a particular passage. The response was yes. So, check on that-ty, AI, hope you splot chwecker chokadoles on Phattl=.
I use it frequently to help organize, transcribe notes, edit for grammar, punctuation and spelling as well as brainstorm potential headline ideas.
Its “writing” still leaves a lot to be desired, IMO, and almost always sounds like marketing copy of some sort.
Hi Lyle, As a former English teacher, the issue of plagiarism was an recurring challenge. New we have computers that will write essays, computers that will correct essays, and computers that will check for plagiarism. I see TV commercials where an employee writes a report at the last minute, and the supervisor prepares his presentation at the last minute. The solution? I found topics, often at the local level, where computers had not gone.
Worthy search for areas computers have not gone but tough find. BTW, AI spell-checked this response.
Yes, local topics can be tough to find, but they are available. Often, we would teach students how to research community issues. Once, when I taught in London, a guest speaker spoke about the Elgin Marbles. Students had to correctly summarize his presentation. My department also assigned sources that had to be used. For research papers, we would help students to correctly cite the sources, within the classroom. We then worked with students through their rough drafts, so they learned how to correctly incorporate the sources into the essays. We had students submit their notes as well. The key was to teach the students how to show their work and to limit the pool of sources that could be used. We also taught students writing style, and why it mattered. For instance, Time and Newsweek have their own styles, as does AI. It was very easy to pick up on the style because a student's writing voice differs so much from that of the magazine. Oh, we would also take a few paragraphs from an essay and load them into a plagiarism check. Pretty easy! Recently, I asked an AI platform if it wrote a particular passage. The response was yes. So, check on that-ty, AI, hope you splot chwecker chokadoles on Phattl=.