Originality in Academic Writing – Revisiting Critical Thinking in the Age of AI
Originality in Academic Writing – Revisiting Critical Thinking in the Age of AI

Summary/Abstract: This topic investigates the way in which academic writing could benefit from AI tools.Academic writing can often be perceived by students as time-consuming, in both reading for producing a text and actual writing. Even though this might be true, it is still important not to neglect three levels of operating in (academic) writing and to make sure to always cover them precisely to build originality. The levels could be considered the following: (i) micro level – for grammatical structures and style; (ii)meso level – for structural coherence and organization; (iii) macro level – for goals,literature review, research question, etc., depending on the purpose of the text. For thispresentation, I did not collect any empirical data from my students, as the proposal focuses on a theoretical framework. Thus, this paper proposes a series of AI-based tools (such as ChatGPT, Elicit, Grammarly) that can help students refine each of these levels.

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