An important reason for language educators to focus on developing critical reading and discourse analytic abilities among learners that help them develop awareness of, and maybe even learn to detect, text written by artificial intelligence. There are tools for detecting AI-written text already, but there’s no doubt these texts will become so frequent and ubiquitous that unless readers know when to suspect it and what might typify it — using only their judgement skills as a tool — they may overlook it and ultimately be prone to its effect, for good or bad. There is a human behind an AI text who has prompted it, with an intention, purpose and audience in mind, but the techniques and references that the AI utilizes are far quicker and probably more sophisticated than that human could write. An AI text still has a purpose and usually an audience that can be discerned.
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As of today we’re pleased to make the online textbook Critical Language Awareness: Language Power Techniques and English Grammar openly available for use as an open educational resource for writing and grammar courses that want to focus on developing critical language awareness as part of writing instruction. The textbook can be used to teach language power techniques and grammar features together or separately, and the four language power techniques: Metaphor, Doublespeak, Address Forms & Pronoun Choice, and Name-calling are also available as separate, standalone modules. Each module includes discussion/reflection questions, links to integrated and optional videos and external readings, and interactive activities.
Online textbook and modules now available
As of now we’re happy to make the online textbook Critical Language Awareness: Language Power Techniques and English Grammar freely available for use as an open educational resource for writing and grammar courses that want to focus on developing critical language awareness as part of writing instruction. The textbook can be used to teach language power techniques and grammar features together or separately, and the four language power techniques: Metaphor, Doublespeak, Address Forms & Pronoun Choice, and Name-calling are also available as separate, standalone modules. Each module
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