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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

No. It's the entire paper, not "a little help in phrasing." It comes back as 100% AI on a check. I'd be fine with a little help, not 100% generated.

What isn't relevant is to make inaccurate assumptions to try to school someone else on their field.[/quote]

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