eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

Those reasons may include: lack of writing skills, insecurity around writing skills, struggles with time management, confusion about the topic, missing grammar and organizational skills, having no motivation or interest, missing real-world relevance, poor work ethic, lack of access to resources, and home/personal life stress.

Writing 328

Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 328

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Most digital writing tools offer limited assistance: they check for plagiarism, allow a student to track changes, or offer the ability to add comments. Assessing one’s own writing and providing feedback to peers both help to move students forward as writers. Students, in most classroom contexts, are not accustomed to being evaluators.

Feedback 128

Feedback Peer Review Writing Beliefs 128

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

The paper passed three peer reviewers who reported that they believed the paper was written by a person. 1) noted that ChatGPT wrote academic abstracts that passed through the peer review process 32% of the time even after reviewers had been told that some of the abstracts were fake. A report by Paul (2023, p.1)

Intelligence 98

Intelligence Critical Thinking Academic Integrity Peer Review 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

The paper passed three peer reviewers who reported that they believed the paper was written by a person. 1) noted that ChatGPT wrote academic abstracts that passed through the peer review process 32% of the time even after reviewers had been told that some of the abstracts were fake. A report by Paul (2023, p.1)

Intelligence 98

Intelligence Critical Thinking Academic Integrity Peer Review 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Employ plagiarism checkers. Many instructors already rely on plagiarism checkers. But while a plagiarism detector cannot tell us who wrote a paper if it is not in a database of papers to be checked against, there is now at least one plagiarism detector dedicated to sniffing out AI-generated content. Peer review.

Assignments 122

Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Employ plagiarism checkers. Many instructors already rely on plagiarism checkers. But while a plagiarism detector cannot tell us who wrote a paper if it is not in a database of papers to be checked against, there is now at least one plagiarism detector dedicated to sniffing out AI-generated content. Peer review.

Assignments 98

Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98