If you’ve looked for pedagogical resources on using AI writing in the classroom (“best practices,” info on assignment design, suggestions on how to catch plagiarism) you’ve probably seen notes like this: “Models like ChatGPT have been recorded in multiple cases to cite sources for information that are either not correct or do not exist” (Wikipedia,…Continue Reading AI Writing and Attribution: AI Cannot Cite *Anything*
Category: Professional Development
Personal Statements, Research Statements, and Diversity Statements
(An idiot’s guide) Me. I’m the idiot here. I emphasize this because I can’t know exactly what any individual search committee is looking for when they put out a call to hire new professors. Some of this is because different programs and different universities are looking for different things; some of this is because programs…Continue Reading Personal Statements, Research Statements, and Diversity Statements
ChatGPT Teaching Resources
Whether you think AI writing is the wave of the future or whether you think/hope it will get regulated into obscurity (God, I’ve seen what you’ve done for others…), it probably makes sense to figure out what to do with it right now. You’ve got students using it, you’ve got edutech grifters pitching expensive nonsense,…Continue Reading ChatGPT Teaching Resources
Adapting Seminar Papers for Conferences or Publication
Although seminar papers are great places to start workshopping your arguments, they are often too parochial—too narrowly focused; too narrowly tailored to a specific reader—to submit to outside audiences. This handout will give you some suggestions for how to reconceptualize your work and adapt your existing papers for new audiences and venues. Pay particular attention…Continue Reading Adapting Seminar Papers for Conferences or Publication