UniSIG - Teaching scientific writing in the age of AI

Long-standing SENSE member David Barick is a freelance teacher of academic writing and has worked at various universities and teaching hospitals in the Netherlands. For many years, he was the convener of the SENSE Ed SIG. His talk will be based on a presentation originally created for the METM 25 conference in Barcelona. He writes:

"Academics all over the world are having to deal with the increasing use of AI for writing academic assignments. For lecturers in scientific writing like myself who assist PhD candidates writing complex empirical research articles, AI did not initially appear to be a particularly reliable source of advice. But the AI field is developing by leaps and bounds, and universities are now taking it very seriously, producing a steady stream of workshops and exercises devoted to applications of generative AI for the classroom. If this keeps up, how much room will be left for the input of human teachers?

In this presentation, I will summarize the most interesting takeaways from AI workshops I have attended and evaluate the efficacy of new AI exercises that I have been exposed to. In particular, I will concentrate on how well AI performs when asked to comment on higher-level aspects of writing, such as the structure of sentences and paragraphs. The presentation should be of interest to any language professionals who wonder how successful AI can be in producing original texts."

Registration for this Zoom meeting will close on Thursday 27 November at 17:00 CET, and the link to the Zoom meeting will be emailed to everyone who registered.

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