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This highly selective guide that has grown out of discussions on ChatGPT at SPU since November 2022.
Cheating Lessons, by James M. Lang focuses on the learning environments that lead to cheating. While some tools, like ChatGPT, can make cheating easier, the reasons for cheating have remained the same.
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Consider the following guiding questions provided during the SPU ChatGPT workshop to assist your students in appropriately using AI tools in your course.
Ideas for using AI-generated content for student critique and discussion:
Syllabus example shared by the FLO office, created by Dr. Traynor Hansen, Director of Campus Writing, that is used in the writing courses.
"The use of another’s work in writing—or of work you have completed for another class—without citing their contribution, whether intentional or accidental, is a serious offense. This applies equally to work produced by other writers or by AI writing software (such as ChatGPT). If you are ever in a situation in which you are concerned about whether your presentation of information is plagiarism or not, it is your responsibility to vet your writing with an instructor or writing tutor before you present it as your own work. Plagiarism or academic dishonesty of any sort is not tolerated."
Additional resources and syllabus examples:
If you have a writing intensive class, read Faculty Guidance on Generative AI Writing Tools on the SPU Writing Program website. Written by Traynor Hansen, Director of Campus Writing, this post was created with writing faculty in mind, but gives suggestions and examples for developing guidelines around the use of AI tools in class, additional syllabus language, and options for constructing writing assignments that emphasize working with students on the process of writing, not just the submission of a final product.
Usually in APA Style content that is nonrecoverable and can’t be retrieved or linked would be cited in-text only as personal communication, but APA has determined that since generative output is not created by a person, this format is not the recommended format for ChatGPT. The current recommendation is include the prompt and relevant text in the body of the paper and to credit the author of the algorithm as an intext citation and in the reference list.
Citation Example:
Additional Resource:
For MLA, create a reference using MLA's template of core elements, with starting with the prompt entered into AI tool as Title of Source and the name of the AI tool as the Title of Container:
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