Being an educator who has caught students using plagiarized papers or papers coming from writing mills, I have to say that the emergence of these AI writing software has been helpful to my students in terms of writing their papers. I know, it creates "word salad" most of the time for the students, who, if not advised to correct these empty sentences, would submit it as is. However, I want them to learn what makes a research paper bad or good. So I appreciate the word salad very much. It encourages the student to read the paper and fix it before submitting it to me.
Truth be told, I have encouraged my students to use writing software whenever possible, specially when they feel stuck when writing a paper. Sometimes all they need is a form of encouragement or support, a point in the right direction. All of which an AI writing software can provide. I can identify when a writing software was used for the assignment. Yet, I do not mark down the student for it because he obviously made an effort to fix most of the paper to meet my requirements. He did not pay someone else to write his paper for him and that, is something I will always reward with a passing grade. |