New Resource Available: A Student Guide to Using Grammarly
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Recognizing the increasing prevalence of AI tools, including Grammarly’s AI features, this resource aims to clarify the “lines” between acceptable and unacceptable use at each stage of writing.
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LTS is actively involved in UIC’s efforts to adapt AI to higher education, and we realize that sometimes, it means adapting higher education to AI. We released Grammarly for students almost 2 years ago now, and the benefits have been enormous. Students and faculty both report that Grammarly helps them improve their day-to-day communication, and if used correctly, it helps shrink the gap between students with native proficiency in English and students actively learning English as part of their education. Our diverse student body makes that a priority, even as we recognize the difficulties of providing a tool with generative AI capabilities to students.
That’s why we wanted to provide a student-oriented guide to the “landscape” of responsible AI-use. This is not a page with specific techniques or use-cases, but a primer on the big issues that you need to know about as a student as you figure out, together with the university at large, how to use AI to enrich your learning. Recognizing the increasing prevalence of AI tools, including Grammarly’s AI features, this resource aims to clarify the “lines” between acceptable and unacceptable use at each stage of writing.
A key message emphasized throughout the guide is the critical importance of understanding and adhering to instructor and institutional policies regarding AI use. But we also want to offer students an overview of the controversies and a framework for thinking about how to use AI as part of their college writing practice. That’s why we organized the guide according to the different “stages” of writing, including pre-writing, drafting, revising, and editing.
A page like this is always open to feedback, and will change with added input – nobody has the AI-in-college thing completely figured out, and we would love to hear your thoughts, pro-tips, and stories so we can continue providing the most beneficial resources and support for our UIC flames. If you want to talk about AI at UIC as a student, contact LTS’s learning design specialist, James Sharpe – just mention the Student Guide to Grammarly in your email header!