I’m sorry, so fucking angry. Students with sources that don’t exist. Students with sources that exist but then the quotation doesn’t exist.
I’m so fucking mad, because it’s extra work for me (that I’m sure as hell not getting compensated for), and it also entirely defeats the purpose of the fucking class (it’s writing/research, so like, engaging in a discipline and looking at what’s been written before on your topic, etc.)
Kill me please. Comrades, I’m so tired. I just want to teach writing. I want to give students a way to exercise agency in the world – to both see bad arguments and make good ones. They don’t care. I’m so tired.
BTW, I took time to look up some of these sources my student used, couldn’t find the quotes they quote, so told them the paper is an “A” if they can show me every quotation and failing otherwise. Does this seem like a fair policy (my thought is – no matter the method, fabrication of evidence is justification for failing work)?
Pass Fail Verbal exams. Seriously just ask them a random very simple question about their paper and if they cant answer it then 0%.
This bypasses the AI problem because if they’ve gone to all the trouble of making a fake paper and then learning it’s bullshit by heart then hopefully they’ve learned something about how papers are written, even if by accident.
Yes that sort of thing works well, but it takes a huge amount of extra time to actually do properly.