Chapter 8 of 9 · 5 practices · 5 min · 4-question quiz
Use AI tools honestly within your university's rules
Generative AI tools can help you learn, plan and check your work, but rules on their use vary and are changing. Know your rules, disclose what you used and own every word.
Start: Find out your university's and supervisor's rules on AI before you use it5 practices in this chapter
- 1Find out your university's and supervisor's rules on AI before you use itThere is no single rule. Some universities ban generative AI in assessed writing, some allow it with disclosure, and many leave it to departments or supervisors. Rules for the code may differ from…
- 2Use AI to learn and check, not to produce work you present as your ownWhere AI use is allowed, the line that matters is whether the thinking and the words are yours. A useful rough guide, always subject to your rules: A simple test: could you explain and defend every…
- 3Disclose and cite AI use in the way your rules requireIf you used a generative AI tool, say so clearly. APA Style's guidance, for example, treats the company as the author, uses the year of the tool's version, and adds a bracketed description: APA also…
- 4Keep drafts and history as evidence of your own writingMany universities now run AI writing detection alongside similarity checks. Turnitin's own guidance says its AI writing report can misidentify text and should not be used as the only basis for action…
- 5Verify every fact, reference and line of code an AI tool gives youGenerative AI tools can state wrong facts confidently, invent references that look real, and produce code with subtle bugs or security problems. In a report, each of these becomes your mistake.
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