AI tools for academical writing - friend or foe for university students?

I am Elke, a Master's student of International Corporate Communication and Media Management at the University of Applied Sciences Neu-Ulm.

Within the scope of a research project, I am analyzing the usage of AI tools for academical writing among university students in Germany. The following survey takes about 5 to 10 minutes. All your answers are anonymized. As a service provider for this survey, the tool Survio® was chosen. Further information about data protection can be accessed here: https://www.survio.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung 

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AI tools for academical writing - friend or foe for university students?


Section 1: Warm-up questions

1

Have you ever used an AI tool to write an academical paper?

This questions aims to pre-select the adequate research participants. If your answer is "no", there is no need for you to continue this survey.
2

What is your field of study?

Please select your field of study from the above enlisted subjects
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AI tools for academical writing - friend or foe for university students?

Section 2: AI tools for academical writing 

3

Which AI tool(s) did you use for academical writing?

Please mention the AI tool(s) that you use or did use for academical writing out of the following categories: writing assistance (evaluation and/or corrective feedback), translation, content generation such as ChatGPT, Grammarly, DeepL, etc., ...
4

For which part of your academical writing process did you use an AI tool?

Please select the applicable reason(s) for which you used the AI writing tool(s)
5

What is the reason that you use AI tools for academical writing for?

Please select the applicable answer(s)
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AI tools for academical writing - friend or foe for university students?

Section 3: Usability of AI tools for academical writing

6

Was/were the tool(s) easy to use?

7

How often did you have to fine tune your requests to receive the answers that you were searching for

8

What were the limitations of the AI tool(s) that you had to face?

Please select one or several answers
9

Did you check the reliability of the provided information?

Please select an answer
10

How often do you use AI tools for you academical writing?

11

Please rate the effectiveness of the improvement of your academical writing through the AI tool(s)?

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The AI tool(s) did not have a remarkable benefit on my academical paper at all
The AI tool(s) had a tremendous positive effect on my academical writing outcome
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AI tools for academical writing - friend or foe for university students?

Section 4: Ethical Concerns

12

Where do you see ethical concerns of using AI tools for your academical writing?

Please select one or various answers
13

Did you mark the AI tool as your research source in your academical paper

Please select a response
14

Did you use AI tools for paraphrasing in order to prevent plagiarism?

Please select an answer
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Section 5: Demographics

15

Which degree are you currently pursuing?

16

How old are you?

17

What is your gender?

Further remarks

18

Do you have any further remarks regarding the usage of AI tools for academical writing that were not covered in the survey?

Thank you for your participation!! 

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