Are you a student or anyone that needs to write an essay for school while Chatgpt can do that for you?
Am I condoning that?
No, absolutely not.
Because there is more to writing an essay than just getting it done.
And this goes into the whole ethics and plagiarism of of how to use Chatgpt in the right way.
So I have to be up front and say that this is not something that I condone or think you should do as
a student.
Just copy and paste what Chatgpt can can write for you.
Obviously we can have a prompt and put in a prompt and tell Chatgpt to write a 500 word essay on a particular
topic.
But that's not what I'm going to teach you in this lesson.
What I want to teach you is how you can use Chatgpt to improve your essay writing.
So here on the New York Times, we have a list of 1000 writing prompts.
If you just search for New York Times 1000 writing prompts, you can find this list.
And so there's lots of ideas.
One that just stood out to me was number 72.
Do you think recreational recreational drones are safe?
So I could literally copy and paste this into Chatgpt and say, Can you write a 500 word essay on this
prompt?
And that's the boringest, most simplest, most cheating way to use Chatgpt to write an essay for you.
I will say that classes, teachers, schools are catching up very quickly.
There's lots of tools out there that can tell if an essay is written with a with chatgpt or with the
use of AI.
And so if you're trying to get away with this, then one don't do it because it's morally, I believe
the wrong thing to do.
I want you to learn as a student and writing essays with your own research, with your own ideas.
Doing it yourself is the way to improve your writing, and that's going to help out in the long run.
I can't tell you how thankful I am that I had very strict tough writing courses in high school because
it helped me in college.
So here we have all of these this this essay basically written for us.
I'm just going to show you if I go to chat GPT 0.me, which is just one of the tools that shows if text
is written by AI or not, I can just paste this, get the results and it gives me.
Yes, your text is likely to be written entirely by AI.
Now that's one issue.
Is it written by AI?
The other is, is there plagiarism and there's other tools out there that these are actually good If
you are using any content, whether you are writing for a website, social media, emails for a business,
or if you are writing an essay.
grammarly.com has a plagiarism checker, so I can just paste that text again.
Scan for plagiarism.
I like to verify via multiple websites.
So double checker Dupli checker.com is another one and you can get started for free.
So I'm going to let that run.
Grammarly came back with some plagiarism in this.
So there are some issues and we'll see with double checker some more details on that.
So this is very critical when you are writing an essay or any content that you're saying that you're
writing yourself.
So on one hand.
Submitting this to a test or to a school essay.
Writing competition or school project is not going to fly because there is plagiarism.
The other is it's going to be flagged as written by AI.
So this is not how I would recommend using Chatgpt to help you write write a an essay.
I guess the next thing you could do is read this and make it your own.
And that's what students are going to try to do.
Include your own experience examples, add in additional sources and content to make it your own.
But I still believe there there's an ethics line that's being crossed by saying that you're writing
this essay and you're just taking it from Chatgpt.
How do I believe you can ethically use Chatgpt to help you write an essay?
One is by finding sources.
So what I can do is write Chatgpt to say list ten sources related to the essay.
Prompt.
Oops, that's that text.
So let's take this.
Prompt again.
And it's going to give us several links that then we can go find.
Instead of having to do the Google search ourself, we can use these links and find information ourselves,
craft our own essay.
And this would be very similar to going to Google and doing our self going to a library, which is what
I had to do when I was in school.
Find books and actually read in books, but done in an easier, quicker way.
And I kind of liken this to using a calculator.
Yeah, of course you can do mathematical problems long form written on a paper, but a calculator is
going to do it much faster.
And so just finding sources this way is going to be very helpful.
The other thing you can do is if you have something that you've written, you can ask Chatgpt to proofread
it.
So I'm going to go to a website that I'm working on.
It's the it's the most similar thing that I have to an essay that I'm currently writing.
So this is sort of a personal.
Personal photo journey website about my time in my hometown.
So I'm just going to copy this text.
I'm going to tell Chatgpt you are a proof reader.
Please fix any grammar or spelling mistakes.
And then I put all the text.
And then I could go through and I can see the mistakes before and after if I want to read through this.
But it'll do a good job.
Just.
Initially doing a proofreading of grammar and spelling, which is super helpful.
The last thing that I'll say is a little bit on the boundary of ethical, ethical or not is to get chatgpt
to help with the outline of an essay.
So I'm going to take this prompt again and I will say write an outline for an essay about this topic
and Chatgpt will come up with an outline which then you can go in and write yourself.
Ethically, this is a little bit.
On the fence.
If you're taking this outline and you're then writing all the content yourself, then.
I don't think it's necessarily unethical, but it's still not the point of writing essays as a student,
which is to come up with this yourself.
So that's another way you can use Chatgpt to to help you with your essays.
So the plagiarism checker from Dupla Checker did not find any instances of plagiarism, which is interesting.
Grammarly did.
And another one to check out is q.com, but it is a paid service as well.
So this is more if you are a teacher working at a school and you're looking for ways to check essays,
then this is one service that you can do.
You get one free test so you can test that out yourself.
So that's how you can write essays with the help of Chatgpt.
And a little bit about my thoughts on the ethics of it as well.