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coffeeinvenice t1_jctlf2a wrote

I have been using it to re-draft and paraphrase news articles I find on the Internet to prepare lessons for English classes. After I ask it to paraphrase an article, I look at the result and 'paraphrase the paraphrase', so to speak.

I've noticed two benefits:

  • It speeds up my lesson preparation time by automating a task I used to do entirely myself.

  • Since I started using it for this purpose, I've noticed that my own paraphrasing skills are getting better and faster. So in addition to the benefit of automating a work task, I've also benefitted in an improvement in my own personal writing and editing skills.

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Shmogt t1_jctm4w6 wrote

Do you paste the link in and say paraphrase this?

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coffeeinvenice t1_jctxsgz wrote

No I copy and paste blocks of text. Sometimes the first iteration is...not quite what I want it to be, so there is an 'answer again' option and that often gives a better result a second time.

I'm not 100% clear in my mind yet whether I am using ChatGPT to paraphrase a news article, or to plagiarize it. For my purposes the vocabulary and grammar of most native-English news stories is too advanced for ESL learners, so ChatGPT helps me to do something faster that I normally do anyway.

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