Explore possibilities
There are opportunities to use AI and other tools, much as you would use the support of other people, to:
- Inspire ideas - that you develop in your own way
- Suggest ways forward - that you then adapt to fit your specific context and purpose
- Obtain information - that you make your own
- Support your process of decision-making – but you make the decisions
In all cases, it is essential to produce academic work that you can still legitimately call ‘my own’.
Examine current limitations
To help you work out what is, and what is not, a legitimate use of AI tools such as ChatGPT, explore the following worked examples. These relate to assignment writing tasks.
1. Devising an assignment title
2. Finding reading material for your assignment
3. Summarising texts
4. Gaining ideas for themes to include
5. Understanding the material
6. Structuring your written assignment
7. Writing the assignment
Explore worked examples
1. Devising an assignment title
Suggest ideas for titles for essays, research projects and other assignments.
To stimulate your own ideas and examine the suggestions to devise your own.
2. Finding reading material for your assignment
To suggest reading materials in response to your prompts, and to make further or more specific suggestions, when prompted.
3. Summarising text
Support in making decisions when you have a long reading list, about what to read and what to leave.
4. Gaining ideas for themes to include
Suggest lists of themes that can generate ideas of what to include in your assignment
5. Understanding the material
To support you in reviewing material that you do not understand, to make sense of complex, technical or specialist content.
6. Structuring your written assignment
To make an outline plan for an assignment and suggest which material to include in each paragraph.
7. Writing the assignment
Produce text to a given title, based on themes and sources it has suggested or that you give to it.
