March 4th Prompt: Today we discussed why academic writing must reflect your own thinking and understanding rather than relying on artificial intelligence to generate your ideas. After learning about the expectations for authentic writing, reflect on why it is important for students to write essays in their own words.

 Response: It is important to write your own essays because when you just get AI to write it for you, then you lose the purpose of writing. When you write essays, you need to think critically which develops critically skills that you need later in life.