Email from college or professor

[Anonymous]

You need to work on your writing skills.

[Anonymous]

OP, what’s the name of the college, how is it ranked, or what type of school is it? Just trying to get some context for the level of student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd like to go back to the days of these complaints. Many of my students are having grammarly essentially write their work, and they don't even realize it because they think that using grammarly is just a "help," and, therefore, not even question whether this is their writing. They all sound like generic scholarly essays that are full of hot air because they don't really read the assignments well enough either! I've had to contact so many, freak them out with AI plagiarism talk and get them to roll it back. Almost grateful to see misspellings because they are an indication that the work is authentic.

As for content, I make it clear from the beginning that points are earned by utilizing info from the readings. It's in the prompt and the rubric. So, no need to chide there.

I think with today's students, this email will just antagonize them, sadly. And some will catch that possessive/plural error.

You do realize that everyone needs to adapt to generative AI, yes? My kid is at a top school and 1/2 his classes REQUIRE use of ChatGPT and 1/2 are old school professors. My kid assures me that probably by next year 100% of classes will use chatGPT in some fashion because the working world demands it.

There was an article in the WSJ today that nearly every MBA program is now incorporating chatGPT into their curricula. Basically, they are telling students to use chatGPT to write "boiler plate" parts of a business plan and then student reviews and edits, and take original ideas and feed it into chatGPT and let it help fill in the blanks and make the thoughts punchier more concise.

Name it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd like to go back to the days of these complaints. Many of my students are having grammarly essentially write their work, and they don't even realize it because they think that using grammarly is just a "help," and, therefore, not even question whether this is their writing. They all sound like generic scholarly essays that are full of hot air because they don't really read the assignments well enough either! I've had to contact so many, freak them out with AI plagiarism talk and get them to roll it back. Almost grateful to see misspellings because they are an indication that the work is authentic.

As for content, I make it clear from the beginning that points are earned by utilizing info from the readings. It's in the prompt and the rubric. So, no need to chide there.

I think with today's students, this email will just antagonize them, sadly. And some will catch that possessive/plural error.

You do realize that everyone needs to adapt to generative AI, yes? My kid is at a top school and 1/2 his classes REQUIRE use of ChatGPT and 1/2 are old school professors. My kid assures me that probably by next year 100% of classes will use chatGPT in some fashion because the working world demands it.

There was an article in the WSJ today that nearly every MBA program is now incorporating chatGPT into their curricula. Basically, they are telling students to use chatGPT to write "boiler plate" parts of a business plan and then student reviews and edits, and take original ideas and feed it into chatGPT and let it help fill in the blanks and make the thoughts punchier more concise.

You don't realize that this is a humanities class. Part of the point is to learn to write as a human. Students can use AI to brainstorm but not to develop phrasing. Humans need to hone written skills before using AI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd like to go back to the days of these complaints. Many of my students are having grammarly essentially write their work, and they don't even realize it because they think that using grammarly is just a "help," and, therefore, not even question whether this is their writing. They all sound like generic scholarly essays that are full of hot air because they don't really read the assignments well enough either! I've had to contact so many, freak them out with AI plagiarism talk and get them to roll it back. Almost grateful to see misspellings because they are an indication that the work is authentic.

As for content, I make it clear from the beginning that points are earned by utilizing info from the readings. It's in the prompt and the rubric. So, no need to chide there.

I think with today's students, this email will just antagonize them, sadly. And some will catch that possessive/plural error.

Do you think Grammarly is cheating? My DS uses it. She has dyslexia, dysgraphia and ADHD. It doesn’t write the work for her. It basically tells her when she has made a grammatical or spelling error. I find it akin to a proof reader. She does not use Chat GPT to write work (although many of her friends do) because she finds the writing horrible.

I’m just interested in if Grammarly is considered cheating and why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd like to go back to the days of these complaints. Many of my students are having grammarly essentially write their work, and they don't even realize it because they think that using grammarly is just a "help," and, therefore, not even question whether this is their writing. They all sound like generic scholarly essays that are full of hot air because they don't really read the assignments well enough either! I've had to contact so many, freak them out with AI plagiarism talk and get them to roll it back. Almost grateful to see misspellings because they are an indication that the work is authentic.

As for content, I make it clear from the beginning that points are earned by utilizing info from the readings. It's in the prompt and the rubric. So, no need to chide there.

I think with today's students, this email will just antagonize them, sadly. And some will catch that possessive/plural error.

You do realize that everyone needs to adapt to generative AI, yes? My kid is at a top school and 1/2 his classes REQUIRE use of ChatGPT and 1/2 are old school professors. My kid assures me that probably by next year 100% of classes will use chatGPT in some fashion because the working world demands it.

There was an article in the WSJ today that nearly every MBA program is now incorporating chatGPT into their curricula. Basically, they are telling students to use chatGPT to write "boiler plate" parts of a business plan and then student reviews and edits, and take original ideas and feed it into chatGPT and let it help fill in the blanks and make the thoughts punchier more concise.

Name it.

+1. Mine at a T10 and does not use AI. At least not for writing based classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd like to go back to the days of these complaints. Many of my students are having grammarly essentially write their work, and they don't even realize it because they think that using grammarly is just a "help," and, therefore, not even question whether this is their writing. They all sound like generic scholarly essays that are full of hot air because they don't really read the assignments well enough either! I've had to contact so many, freak them out with AI plagiarism talk and get them to roll it back. Almost grateful to see misspellings because they are an indication that the work is authentic.

As for content, I make it clear from the beginning that points are earned by utilizing info from the readings. It's in the prompt and the rubric. So, no need to chide there.

I think with today's students, this email will just antagonize them, sadly. And some will catch that possessive/plural error.

Do you think Grammarly is cheating? My DS uses it. She has dyslexia, dysgraphia and ADHD. It doesn’t write the work for her. It basically tells her when she has made a grammatical or spelling error. I find it akin to a proof reader. She does not use Chat GPT to write work (although many of her friends do) because she finds the writing horrible.

I’m just interested in if Grammarly is considered cheating and why.

It depends on how you use it. It's fine for proofing and identifying errors, but I've found this semester, that students are using it to suggest phrasing and doing that throughout the essay. It then doesn't sound like the student at all. I have one student who has little experience with academic English. He even joked about it in his Introduction. His essay was very glossy. Completely different voice to his other work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd like to go back to the days of these complaints. Many of my students are having grammarly essentially write their work, and they don't even realize it because they think that using grammarly is just a "help," and, therefore, not even question whether this is their writing. They all sound like generic scholarly essays that are full of hot air because they don't really read the assignments well enough either! I've had to contact so many, freak them out with AI plagiarism talk and get them to roll it back. Almost grateful to see misspellings because they are an indication that the work is authentic.

As for content, I make it clear from the beginning that points are earned by utilizing info from the readings. It's in the prompt and the rubric. So, no need to chide there.

I think with today's students, this email will just antagonize them, sadly. And some will catch that possessive/plural error.

You do realize that everyone needs to adapt to generative AI, yes? My kid is at a top school and 1/2 his classes REQUIRE use of ChatGPT and 1/2 are old school professors. My kid assures me that probably by next year 100% of classes will use chatGPT in some fashion because the working world demands it.

There was an article in the WSJ today that nearly every MBA program is now incorporating chatGPT into their curricula. Basically, they are telling students to use chatGPT to write "boiler plate" parts of a business plan and then student reviews and edits, and take original ideas and feed it into chatGPT and let it help fill in the blanks and make the thoughts punchier more concise.

You don't realize that this is a humanities class. Part of the point is to learn to write as a human. Students can use AI to brainstorm but not to develop phrasing. Humans need to hone written skills before using AI.

You have to ask…for what purpose? You are stating your viewpoint as though the business world cares whether a human has honed their written skills before using AI. They don’t really care.

The working world will increasingly prefer the kid that knows how to best leverage AI over the best human writer. Perhaps they are the same person…don’t know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd like to go back to the days of these complaints. Many of my students are having grammarly essentially write their work, and they don't even realize it because they think that using grammarly is just a "help," and, therefore, not even question whether this is their writing. They all sound like generic scholarly essays that are full of hot air because they don't really read the assignments well enough either! I've had to contact so many, freak them out with AI plagiarism talk and get them to roll it back. Almost grateful to see misspellings because they are an indication that the work is authentic.

As for content, I make it clear from the beginning that points are earned by utilizing info from the readings. It's in the prompt and the rubric. So, no need to chide there.

I think with today's students, this email will just antagonize them, sadly. And some will catch that possessive/plural error.

You do realize that everyone needs to adapt to generative AI, yes? My kid is at a top school and 1/2 his classes REQUIRE use of ChatGPT and 1/2 are old school professors. My kid assures me that probably by next year 100% of classes will use chatGPT in some fashion because the working world demands it.

There was an article in the WSJ today that nearly every MBA program is now incorporating chatGPT into their curricula. Basically, they are telling students to use chatGPT to write "boiler plate" parts of a business plan and then student reviews and edits, and take original ideas and feed it into chatGPT and let it help fill in the blanks and make the thoughts punchier more concise.

Name it.

+1. Mine at a T10 and does not use AI. At least not for writing based classes.

Not for writing, but for checking the work for spelling and pointing out where you have used a bit too much passive voice. Both my kids use Grammarly for that. The work is their own. Even the best authors and writers have editors and proof readers. It's not cheating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd like to go back to the days of these complaints. Many of my students are having grammarly essentially write their work, and they don't even realize it because they think that using grammarly is just a "help," and, therefore, not even question whether this is their writing. They all sound like generic scholarly essays that are full of hot air because they don't really read the assignments well enough either! I've had to contact so many, freak them out with AI plagiarism talk and get them to roll it back. Almost grateful to see misspellings because they are an indication that the work is authentic.

As for content, I make it clear from the beginning that points are earned by utilizing info from the readings. It's in the prompt and the rubric. So, no need to chide there.

I think with today's students, this email will just antagonize them, sadly. And some will catch that possessive/plural error.

You do realize that everyone needs to adapt to generative AI, yes? My kid is at a top school and 1/2 his classes REQUIRE use of ChatGPT and 1/2 are old school professors. My kid assures me that probably by next year 100% of classes will use chatGPT in some fashion because the working world demands it.

There was an article in the WSJ today that nearly every MBA program is now incorporating chatGPT into their curricula. Basically, they are telling students to use chatGPT to write "boiler plate" parts of a business plan and then student reviews and edits, and take original ideas and feed it into chatGPT and let it help fill in the blanks and make the thoughts punchier more concise.

Name it.

+1. Mine at a T10 and does not use AI. At least not for writing based classes.

My kid is at Wharton. AI is essential for 1/2 the classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd like to go back to the days of these complaints. Many of my students are having grammarly essentially write their work, and they don't even realize it because they think that using grammarly is just a "help," and, therefore, not even question whether this is their writing. They all sound like generic scholarly essays that are full of hot air because they don't really read the assignments well enough either! I've had to contact so many, freak them out with AI plagiarism talk and get them to roll it back. Almost grateful to see misspellings because they are an indication that the work is authentic.

As for content, I make it clear from the beginning that points are earned by utilizing info from the readings. It's in the prompt and the rubric. So, no need to chide there.

I think with today's students, this email will just antagonize them, sadly. And some will catch that possessive/plural error.

Do you think Grammarly is cheating? My DS uses it. She has dyslexia, dysgraphia and ADHD. It doesn’t write the work for her. It basically tells her when she has made a grammatical or spelling error. I find it akin to a proof reader. She does not use Chat GPT to write work (although many of her friends do) because she finds the writing horrible.

I’m just interested in if Grammarly is considered cheating and why.

It depends on how you use it. It's fine for proofing and identifying errors, but I've found this semester, that students are using it to suggest phrasing and doing that throughout the essay. It then doesn't sound like the student at all. I have one student who has little experience with academic English. He even joked about it in his Introduction. His essay was very glossy. Completely different voice to his other work.

So what? Seriously. You give them an assignment and they do all the research, structure, organizing, planning. So they get a little help in phrasing, seriously what is your problem with that? This is not a relevant argument.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This should go without saying, but it clearly doesn't.

My problem is that "video's" is not punctuated correctly. WTF!

Videos is plural, video’s means something belongs to the video. I think they wrote it as plural which is correct!

[Anonymous]

Oh I see the first time they wrote videos incorrectly…later on in the paragraph it is correct.

[Anonymous]

First, sometimes programs themselves create grammatical errors (think gmail changing "its" to "it's), and unless one proofreads well on a screen, one might miss these mistakes.

Second, the problem with AI, as with everything else, is how it's used. In humanities classes, composing one's own analyses is synonymous with the acquisition and honing of critical thinking skills, so in this framework, it is both self-defeating and a breach of integrity to turn in papers written by AI.

[Anonymous]

I will say this. I’m ADHD, and when I proof, I see what I think I wrote, not what I actually wrote. It’s been a problem my whole life. Every tip, trick and fix that has been suggested has failed. I’m not arguing that typos are okay, but do realize that sometimes it’s more than just half assign it.

I do think it’s ridiculous that OP is lecturing a bunch of parents. This is DCUM. Not TikTok.