Tag: academic writing
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Claude now has custom writing styles
You can now specify writing styles in Claude, which brings us one step closer to a world where the default behaviour is to use AI more often.
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The buttonification of writing
When you introduce a feature that makes it simple to use AI to generate writing, everyone is going to use the feature.
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AI-supported writing is a validity issue, not a morality issue
Moving beyond debates about ethics and style, this post reframes AI writing in academia as a validity issue. When students use AI for writing, the key question becomes whether we can still make valid assessments of their skills and understanding. This practical framework helps educators determine where AI support helps or hinders educational goals.
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AI-supported writing and confusing style with purpose
Moving beyond debates about AI writing’s “human element,” this post explores how writing purpose should guide AI usage. From technical documentation to personal reflections, understanding the intended purpose of writing helps determine when AI support is appropriate. The post introduces a practical suggestion for evaluating AI writing through purpose rather than style.
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AI-supported writing can be whatever you want it to be
I wanted to challenge the idea that AI-generated writing is inherently sterile, so argued that the quality of AI writing largely depends on how we interact with it. Through better prompts, iterative feedback, and personal editing, writers can create AI-supported content that maintains human qualities while leveraging generative AI’s capabilities.
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Last day for discounted access to Head space course
This 3-hour course focuses on practical ways to incorporate generative AI into your daily academic routines, from reading and writing to creating and learning. You’ll explore how to use AI as a coach, a brainstorming partner, and a project assistant. The goal here is not only to teach you how to use AI, but to…
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Writing with AI isn’t about eliminating the tedious and mundane
Engaging in the cognitively difficult, time-consuming, critical thinking parts of writing, supported by genAI as a thinking partner, may help to produce higher quality pieces, as opposed to seeing it simply as a way to produce more content.
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Head space course on Generative AI for Academics is available
The introduction of generative AI into our workflows presents both an exciting opportunity and a significant challenge. However, because of the unique nature of large language models, it can be difficult to know exactly how to integrate them into our existing areas of practice. The aim of the course is to help academics develop a…
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Obstacles to developing academic expertise
Developing academic expertise is challenging due to delayed feedback, unclear processes, and limited opportunities to observe experts. The post explores how academic tools and systems often lack the capacity for nuanced expression and open-endedness, making it difficult for scholars to attain virtuosity in their field and develop expert performance.
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Weekly digest 34
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Weekly digest 29
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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ChatGPT, turn my article into a public radio-type conversation
I asked ChatGPT to 1) summarise my article for a lay audience, 2) create a transcript of a public radio-type conversation, 3) generate a downloadable audio file of the conversation. It took 10 seconds.
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Weekly digest 26
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Zettlr is an open-source writing platform for academics
I’ve always been fascinated with the tools people use to write (I should write a follow-up to that post), and over the last couple of years that interest has been focused on what I think of as . Your one-stop publication workbench. From idea to publication in one app: Zettlr accompanies you while writing your…
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Claude, help me convert a process into a narrative
Recently I needed to provide a description of a process that we’re going to implement for an upcoming conference, but the process we’d developed in our meetings was written as a list i.e. short, incomplete sentences in bullet point format. We wanted to submit a narrative description so I took that outline and gave it…
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Taylor and Francis clarifies their position on the use of AI for academic content creation
https://newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/taylor-francis-clarifies-the-responsible-use-of-ai-tools-in-academic-content-creation/ “Taylor & Francis recognizes the increased use of AI tools in academic research. As the world’s leading publisher of human-centered science, we consider that such tools, where used appropriately and responsibly, have the potential to augment research outputs and thus foster progress through knowledge.” They go on to say: “…AI tools must not be…
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Claude, help me to write
Yesterday I published a post describing my concerns with how universities are responding to the new paradigm of expertise-on-demand that’s facilitated by generative AI. At the end of that post I noted that I wrote it collaboratively with Claude, and this post describes what that process (kind-of) looked like. I also want to be clear…