I used to explicitly teach exactly this at university of bath computer science in a course called “research project preparation” How to read science articles was in the same lecture as how to not plagiarise / how to cite; iirc
Good to have a reading for @hertieschool.bsky.social students, thx Pat
i'm going to be honest with you: this is a load-bearing observation.
That’s not how I read it…
Joanna Bryson
rev. howard arson
I don’t know what someone he has in mind, but much of the writing by the someones I review and edit can be done better & faster aided by AI. I hope no one in this thread thinks that what’s being discussed is “write me a paper on X” kind of AI use.
My hot take: we faculty bear some blame for failing to teach students how to read efficiently. Reading every word was never practical, and LLMs tempt students we haven’t taught otherwise.
Here’s what I wrote to teach this - please use with your own students if helpful!
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
I think the basic issue with AI writing is not that it’s stylistically bad per se, it’s that *any* style would sound bad if suddenly 70-80 percent of everything was written in it
