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 Your writing will have three parts, two of which you will write yourself and should be about 500 words each. Your writing will have three parts, two of which you will write yourself and should be about 500 words each.
  
-1. The first part will be the AI-generated summary about your chosen topic. You can use any tool for this that you want, and you probably should try several different ones so you have something you can work with.+1\. The first part will be the AI-generated summary about your chosen topic. You can use any tool for this that you want, and you probably should try several different ones so you have something you can work with.
  
-    You should also cite the source for this generated text. This is your "acknowledgement" of the (required) use of a generative AI tool.+You should also cite the source for this generated text. This is your "acknowledgement" of the (required) use of a generative AI tool.
  
  
-2. The second part is your commentary and criticism of the generated text. What is the main message, claim, or most important idea that the AI text gets across? Would students in other areas of study be able to understand it? Does it answer the questions people want to know when they consult an encyclopedia or do a web search for reliable information? Are there errors? Are these things that are confusing, misleading, or too simple? Is it biased, subjective, or located in a specific perspective, and if so what is it? What needs to be corrected, expanded, or improved?+2\. The second part is your commentary and criticism of the generated text. What is the main message, claim, or most important idea that the AI text gets across? Would students in other areas of study be able to understand it? Does it answer the questions people want to know when they consult an encyclopedia or do a web search for reliable information? Are there errors? Are these things that are confusing, misleading, or too simple? Is it biased, subjective, or located in a specific perspective, and if so what is it? What needs to be corrected, expanded, or improved?
  
  
-3. The third part is your rewrite of the first part. Using your own knowledge of this topic and the sources from class, edit the AI-generated text to make it say what you think it should say so that students and lay readers will have what you think is the most important thing to know about your topic.+3\. The third part is your rewrite of the first part. Using your own knowledge of this topic and the sources from class, edit the AI-generated text to make it say what you think it should say so that students and lay readers will have what you think is the most important thing to know about your topic.
  
-    Here's a good procedure for working on this part:+Here's a good procedure for working on this part:
  
-    (1) Open a blank word-processing file, copy the AI-generated text into it, turn on the "Track Changes" function, and edit the text line by line.+* Open a blank word-processing file, copy the AI-generated text into it, turn on the "Track Changes" function, and edit the text line by line. 
 +* Then hide the changes so you can see your new version without markup (blue and red text for insertions and deletions), and read it over again, editing your own final product to your satisfaction. 
 +* When you have finished your edits, save the file, and copy the finished, final, edited text into your main document for submission. 
 +* You may need to "approve" your changes one by one so that your markup is no longer visible.((And you might want to save two working documents, one with your changes marked up and one with the changes "approved" so the markup is taken out.))
  
-    (2) Then hide the changes so you can see your new version without markup (blue and red text for insertions and deletions), and read it over again, editing your own final product to your satisfaction.+When rewriting the AI-generated text, focus on getting across what you think is the most important information, particularly what the topic tells us about anthropology as a discipline and as a conversation. 
  
-    (3) When you have finished your edits, save the file, and copy the finished, final, edited text into your main document for submission.+A good reference article is more than just a bunch of basic facts. It also synthesizes these details into a more comprehensive picture. Contrasts between authors we have read in class can be useful here. To understand what something is, it's good to see what it is not. To understand why someone's ideas are important, it's good to see how they are different from other thinkers.
  
-    (4) You may need to "approve" your changes one by one so that your markup is no longer visible.((And you might want to save two working documents, one with your changes marked up and one with the changes "approved" so the markup is taken out.)) +In other words, while this is not an argumentative essay, it should still have a main point, and it should explain the reasoning that leads you to arrive at this point by making inferences from specific facts to larger conclusions.
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-    When rewriting the AI-generated text, focus on getting across what you think is the most important information, particularly what the topic tells us about anthropology as a discipline and as a conversation. A good reference article is more than just a bunch of basic facts. It also synthesizes these details into a more comprehensive picture. Contrasts between authors we have read in class can be useful here. To understand what something is, it's good to see what it is not. To understand why someone's ideas are important, it's good to see how they are different from other thinkers. +
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-    In other words, while this is not an argumentative essay, it should still have a main point, and it should explain the reasoning that leads you to arrive at this point by making inferences from specific facts to larger conclusions.+
  
  
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