Unless otherwise specified by the faculty member, all submissions, whether in draft or final form, to meet course requirements (including papers, projects, exams, oral presentations, or other work) must either be the student’s own work, or must clearly acknowledge the source. Unless an instructor indicates otherwise, the use of ChatGPT or other AI tools for course assignments is akin to having another person do the work or receiving assistance from another person and raises the same concern that the work is not the student’s own.

Appropriate uses of ChatGPT or other AI software in this course:

• Correct grammar or punctuation (Grammarly, Grammar Check, etc.)

• Ask questions to clarify your understanding of a concept (but you cannot use any of the text in your writing)

• Ask AI how to improve your paper, if there a holes in your logic, or if you paper has any major flaws

You can also use AI for the following, but you cannot use any of the AI provided language in your writing (as an algorithm, AI often plagiarizes wording from other locations, but does not have the capacity to recognize the need to cite):

• Create an abstract to read when one is missing

• Convert the language of an article into your primary language

• Ask AI to simplify the language of a difficult article with a lot of jargon

• Convert references into MLA

All uses of AI should be noted in the paper. If you are unsure of parameters, Dr. Fish is happy to help.

AI Defense

If you feel you have been unfairly flagged for AI, make an appointment with Dr. Fish to go over the history of your gDoc. All papers written completely inside the working portfolio will show a history of writing the paper in real time (which makes your paper easily defended). Microsoft Word, assignments copied and pasted from outside documents, and uploaded documents, however, will not show this.