Generative Ai
The Writing Center has been working to develop resources for both faculty and students on Generative AI.
Faculty:
For faculty, the Writing Center has a 1-hour professional development workshop which overviews the current GenAI tools available to students and the public. This workshop has live examples of popular GenAI applications, and reviews the benefits — and challenges — of encouraging ethical student usage of these programs.
If interested in joining this discussion, you may join the "NSU Faculty & Staff AI Listserv" by emailing writingcenter@nsu.edu to request access. This listserv provides a space to share strategies and challenges encountering student AI usage on NSU's Campus.
Students:
For those students interested in GenAI resources, we encourage you to come to the Writing Center to learn the "do's" and "do-nots" of using AI to brainstorm, outline, or keep track of research. Feel free to come in to the Writing Center or email writingcenter@nsu.edu for more information in accordance with our policy below.
AI Policy:
The Writing Center can help you locate credible sources to verify information found through AI and to find supplemental credible sources to use in your writing. The Writing Center can also assist you with summarizing and paraphrasing skills so that you can responsibly use the content created by AI in ways that go beyond direct quotations. Anything summarized and paraphrased must be properly cited. The Writing Center can assist you with creating these types of citations.
AI is a useful copyediting tool. However, it can appropriate your work, rewriting your work in its voice. This may feel inauthentic. It also borders on plagiarism. The Writing Center can help you avoid AI appropriation by providing strategies to create appropriation-limiting prompts that maintain your voice and writing style. We can also help you develop prompts to assist you with brainstorming and outlining and show you how to use AI for writing feedback involving tone, grammar, evidence quality, and analysis development. Remember, brainstorming and outlining material generated by AI must be properly cited if used in work submitted for scores or grades. The Writing Center can provide you with AI prompt training for effective brainstorming and outlining as well as guide you in creating proper citations for this material.
One-to-one Consultations
Writers of all levels and across all disciplines are welcome. Our consultations are designed to provide each student assistance with any type of writing project. Our professional and accomplished writing consultants will guide you through your writing project. You will begin your consultation by identifying goals for your 30- to 60-minute session.
For group consultations, call the Writing Center at 757-823-2271 or email at writingcenter@nsu.edu.
You may want to focus on:
- Brainstorming or researching a topic
- Polishing a thesis statement
- Beginning or editing a draft
- Organizing content
- Reviewing grammar rules
- Using MLA, APA, other documentation styles
Writing Workshops
Faculty, staff, and students can request a 30-minute workshop presentation in-person or online via Zoom. For online workshops, the Zoom link will be sent via email.
The workshop topics are designed to refresh your knowledge of writing, grammar, and formatting concepts you have learned over the years. Faculty, staff, and students can schedule a workshop during class time or consultation session Monday-Friday between 9:00AM-6:00PM.
You can call 757-823-2271 or email writingcenter@nsu.edu, or click here to complete a Faculty Workshop Request form. Additional topics are available.
Students are encouraged to bring their papers in any stage of writing to these workshops. Writing consultants offer strategies and will provide feedback related to the workshop topic. Click here for workshop titles and descriptions.