Academic Writing with AI (online)

COURSE DETAILS

Across eight hours of interactive workshops, you'll apply AI tools to real academic contexts through hands-on exercises, guided practice, and peer discussion. Whether you're drafting your first piece of work at Oxford or revising your DPhil thesis, this course will help you use AI responsibly and efficiently to enhance the clarity, precision, and rigour of your academic research.

• Workshop 1: Policy & Researching You'll learn how to support your pre-drafting research with AI tools, generate and refine ideas, and interpret the university's guidelines and policies. This lesson will help you research and plan your writing while also clarifying how to align your work with Oxford’s academic integrity standards.
• Workshop 2: Drafting​​​​ You'll explore different AI resources, as well as techniques to support your writing at the drafting stage. This includes structuring your writing more effectively and refining your argumentation.
• Workshop 3: Revising You'll focus on post-writing strategies, including AI-powered tools for proofreading and revision, helping you refine your work with greater precision.
• Workshop 4: AI in Practice Here, you'll delve into MPLS-specific writing, applying AI tools within the context of your field of study and comparing strategies with peers working in related disciplines.

• Interpret and apply the university’s guidelines on AI use, developing awareness of ethical considerations to ensure responsible integration of AI in academic work. 
• Identify and explore appropriate AI tools for different stages of the writing process, from research to revision, and apply them effectively in academic contexts. 
• Develop the ability to use AI as a feedback tool to improve organisation, language use, and argumentation, ensuring outputs align with academic goals and disciplinary expectations. 
• Learn to refine and structure AI prompts to guide outputs effectively, enabling more precise, reliable, and academically appropriate results. 
• Adapt AI tools to the conventions to MPLS-specific disciplinary writing, refining writing approaches through peer discussion and guided practice.

BOOKING INFORMATION

Booking will open at the beginning of HIlary Term.

you must commit to the whole course. However, if you know you are unable to make one of the dates above, please contact catherine.seed@mpls.ox.ac.uk to see if we can accommodate this. 

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DATE / TIME

• Monday 9th Feb, 10 am - 12pm
• Monday 16th Feb, 10am - 12pm
• Monday 23rd Feb, 10am - 12pm
• Monday 2nd March, 10am - 12pm

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