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AI Tools For Process Writing
AI Tools For Process Writing
Process Writing vs Product Writing
Process Writing vs Product Writing
We often think of writing as a product that demonstrates students’ understanding and abilities. This may be true, but we also want students to learn the process of writing. Therefore, they receive feedback from teachers and classmates. Thinking about writing as a process involving guidance and collaboration helps us consider how generative AI might fit in.
Many teachers are concerned about their pupils Chat Gpting their way through their writing assignments. To combat this, teachers can focus more on process than product.
What is process writing?
What is process writing?
The process approach treats all writing as a creative act which requires time and positive feedback to be done well. In process writing, the teacher moves away from assigning a writing topic and receives the finished product for correction without any intervention in the writing process itself.
Research shows that feedback is more useful between drafts, not when it is done at the end of the task after the students hand in their writing task to be marked. Corrections written on compositions returned to the student after the process has finished do little to improve student writing.
Through the writing process, students must reflect and think at the highest cognitive levels, and this deep engagement in thinking about their learning often improves retention and understanding.
AI & Process Writing
AI & Process Writing
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, like ChatGPT, have disrupted the writing process. Instead of struggling through idea generation, organization of thoughts, the drafting process, and editing efforts, one can simply enter a prompt into an AI chatbot and almost instantly get a piece of writing in return. It can be tempting for students to bypass the writing process altogether and have AI do the work for them.
It may also tempting for teachers to run away from AI by banning it in their classrooms or ignoring it. However, this is ignoring the reality that AI is not going away. Students and professionals are already using AI as a writing partner, and assistant. If we want to prepare our students for a world infused with AI, we must embrace the challenge and find ways to teach our students to use AI in a positive, productive and ethical way. We can guide them through this writing evolution, and empower them to become better writers.
How Students Can Use AI In Writing
How Students Can Use AI In Writing
Brainstorming:
Brainstorming:
Generative AI tools, like ChatGPT are really good at generating lists of ideas, and students can use AI to help them brainstorm ideas and get started with their writing assignments. Because they’re producing a brainstorming list, students will still need to do their own critical thinking, going through the AI-generated list and determining which, if any, of these ideas might help them with their writing task. Using a chatbot in this way is collaborative, like brainstorming with a writing partner
Organizing:
Organizing:
It can be really hard for students organize their ideas a in a manageable way. Generative AI chatbots can again serve as a co-writer to give students options and help them get started with processing their initial ideas.
Editing:
Editing:
AI in writing is not really new, in fact, we have been using AI to help with the editing process for quite a few years now, using tools like spellcheckers and grammar checkers. These were also very controversial when they first came out, they are widely used and accepted. AI typically offers suggestions, rather than automatically correcting, which requires students to actively engage in the practice of editing. This engagement and feedback loop can help students improve their skills. Chatbots give students immediate feedback and the more immediate the feedback is, the more it can shape and improve their learning.
Revision:
Revision:
AI can be helpful when it comes to fine-tuning your writing. For example, a student can paste in a draft of an essay and then ask the chatbot to offer suggestions for improving things like fluency, grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure. In addition, students can ask it to check content for accuracy. If it finds inaccuracies, they can ask AI to provide links to the sources that indicate this. In addition, tudents can paste in a long, complicated sentence and ask the AI for suggestions how to simplify it.
BE CLEAR ABOUT AI USAGE
BE CLEAR ABOUT AI USAGE
Make sure your students know when and how they may and may not use AI.
Set boundaries. You can ask students to avoid AI for particular assignments
Include reflection. Have students reflect on their use of AI..
How Teachers Can Use AI For Process Writing
How Teachers Can Use AI For Process Writing
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