Are LLM apps the 'man behind the curtain'?

I have noticed more and more that people are using AI apps to put together text for novel situations. For example, a colleague of mine recen...

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The use of AI in academic writing

As learners, when we bend our mind to understanding concepts, we all read widely. We begin broadly, then read more deeply and narrowly, draw...

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Why we need to reference

Earlier this year I completed a MOOC on the FutureLearn platform, and got to a week which was focused on referencing. Such a great topic. Bu...

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ChatGPT hype is only hype

After all the hype about ChatGPT, I decided to have a go at using it. To say I am deeply disappointed is an understatement.  OK. So I si...

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Predatory journals - any old tosh for money

Predatory journals have been defined by The Economist as those "which make use of the popular “open-access” model—charging fees to auth...

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Why we need citations and references

While this is a topic I have explored a number of times (here), I am currently working with a new group of undergraduates, whom I am trying ...

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The hoofbeats of plagiarism

While plagiarism is a very serious academic issue, the image that accompanied a previous post ( here ; RetractionWatch, 2013) made me laugh....

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8 types of academic dishonesty

There are a number of different types of academic dishonesty that I have encountered. And while this is not an exhaustive list, I thought I ...

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Retraction Watch

There is a very interesting academic not-for-profit site known as RetractionWatch . The site contributors go out of their way to list author...

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Self-plagiarism, recycling credit and audience expectations

This year I have had a few situations with students 'recycling' work from other assignments. This was not really academic dishones...

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There aint no such thing as a free lunch

I had a situation on a course where several students recycled work, which had already been submitted in on a concurrent course for credit, o...

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Paraphrasing enough

One copied source (Tanw, 2017) In English we have a saying that 'copying is the sincerest form of flattery'. We teach artists to...

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Predatory journals

I was looking for some information recently on Rensis Likert, and one of the articles that I turned up in Google Scholar was really poorl...

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Why paraphrasing is important in academic writing

Each new semester brings the need to explain some of the same things to a new group of students. One thing about that repetition is tha...

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Completing a Degree

(Cappelli, 2012, p. 48) I have written before about an interview with author, Peter Cappelli, and The Wharton School of Business at Penn...

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