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Dear Colleagues: In September, I’ll be teaching for the first time since ChatGPT became available. So, I’m rather dreading how I will handle this issue, but have no intention of
forbidding it (that would be like stopping gravity). Earlier in the year, we had a very interesting conversation on this topic in this list. At that time, I wrote a brief insert for my syllabus based on ideas from other colleagues’ posts. I would like share
that short text, asking you for any ideas, criticisms, or suggestions you might have. Here’s the text from the section pertaining to mid-term and final essays (this is a grad course): “You are required to insert an “acknowledgments” section in mid-term and final essays. You can say whether you began with
Wikipedia and engaged with ChatGPT to do your initial research, got idea X from a peer in class, and had your mother or father proofread your paper. Bear in mind that ChatGPT can yield false responses and provide references that do not exist. You must double
check anything you use from this tool, and preferably stick to our required readings to write your essays. They should provide you with more than sufficient material.” Best regards, Gerardo __ Gerardo Otero Professor and Graduate Chair School for International Studies Tel. Off: +1-778-782-4508 Website: http://www.sfu.ca/people/otero.html I thankfully acknowledge that I live and work in unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Kwikwetlem Nations. |