LEARNING ACADEMIC WRITING IN THE AGE OF AI THROUGH PATTERNING CHATGPT PROMPTED TEXTS: THE HARE VS. THE TORTOISE

Kassim Boudjelal Safir(1*),

(1) Mustapha Stambouli University
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract


The quill is dead; long live AI. Generative AI writing tools or what is commonly known as GAI or GenAI are becoming the students’ best friends. Today, they are largely used -and abused- by students and surprisingly even researchers looking for the “perfect” text. Patterning GenAI content like ChatGPT is still an unexplored avenue. From this perspective, this paper tries to provide structured guidance for struggling post millennial learners. After asking ChatGPT to generate academic texts, a content analysis was conducted to unlock ChatGPT seemingly “perfect” writing style. The results of the research uncovered a series of decoded patterns that offers a treasure map and an academic journey to GenAI minds. Furthermore, this showed that (over) relying on GenAI machines or competing with them is simply counter-productive. Therefore, leaning WITH them is technically possible. Imagine for a second the great potential of such cooperation human - machine.  Speed allied with imagination. Why not? Moving from a prohibitive approach to an inclusive one through learning with AI chatbots might be a solution.

Keywords


academic writing; Generative AI writing tools; pattern-based learning (PBL); post millennials; pl(AI)giarism.

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