What type of p@per is this? This assignment asks you to write a version of a literary/textual analysis. An analysis carefully studies and examines a text. It is a type of argumentative ess@y where you persuade a reader of your assertion about the text. Think critically: Show your critical thinking. I want to read it! Each paragraph should be 50% evidence and 50% your analysis of the evidence.
Should be 4 p@ges please, 5 including the works cited which should mainly just be the book itself.
First Upload: Directions and ChatGPT ess@y's you reflect off of.
Second Upload: The grading sheet. Have everything at excellent and competent, nothing lower please.
Third Upload: Works cited information and refresher
Fourth Upload: This should answer any questions you have. This is a thorough break down on how to write the p@per and the main topics.
NOOOO PLAGIARISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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English 1121 Paper #2 / 19% of the course grade
Paper #2: Analyze ChatGPT’s AI-Generated Paper about Mona Susan Power’s A Council of Dolls
The assignment: For this paper, you will analyze the accuracy and quality of a ChatGPT-generated
essay about Mona Susan Power’s novel A Council of Dolls and use Power’s book to illustrate how the
ChatGPT essay could be improved. (Prof. Riehl has provided the
ChatGPT essay you will analyze at the end of this assignment sheet.)
You will write a focused, organized, analytical, developed, carefully
worded/edited paper that uses MLA format, has a Works Cited page,
and includes proper in-text citations. Questions to guide your analysis:
• How well does Chat GPT analyze the theme of displacement in
Mona Susan Power’s novel A Council of Dolls? How accurate
and effective is the paper generated by Chat GPT, and how
could it be improved? Use evidence from both the Chat GPT essay and Power’s novel to support
your thesis and claims. What specifics, examples, details, and quotations from Power’s book would
improve the ChatGPT essay?
What type of paper is this? This assignment asks you to write a version of a literary/textual analysis. An analysis carefully studies and examines a text. It is a type of argumentative essay where you persuade a reader of your assertion about the text. How does this assignment help me become a critical thinker and better writer? Good writing requires critical thinking and convincing writing. This assignment requires you to read carefully and to use your critical thinking skills to analyze the essay written by ChatGPT about Power’s novel. Your careful reading of Power’s A Council of Dolls is essential to analyzing whether or not the ChatGPT is accurate and of high quality. You must convey your analysis in a clear, focused, and organized paper. It requires that you use the sources—both the ChatGPT-generated essay and Power’s novel A Council of Dolls—as evidence and to cite that evidence appropriately according to MLA format. This assignment introduces you to MLA (Modern Language Association) citation. How do I start this assignment?
1. Read: Begin by carefully reading both the Chat GPT essay and Mona Susan Power’s novel A Council of Dolls.
2. Examine the ChatGPT essay. Think about Power’s novel. Take notes. Here are a few examples of questions to consider as you brainstorm:
a. Which aspects of the assignment does ChatGPT do well? What parts of the ChatGPT essay are accurate and of high quality?
b. Which aspects of the assignment does ChatGPT fail to do well? Are there inaccuracies in the ChatGPT essay? If so, where?
Photo of Mona Susan Power courtesy of the author.
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i. Think about the ChatGPT essay’s intro, thesis, paragraph claims, evidence from the
novel (details, facts, quotations, etc.) organization, analysis, language, MLA citation, etc.
c. How could this ChatGPT essay be better/improved? If you were writing the assignment, which specifics from Power’s book could be used to provide more effective evidence for the claims? Give examples. Etc. Think critically. Analyze.
3. Write a thesis: Your answer to these questions from above is your thesis statement: How well does Chat GPT analyze the theme of displacement in Mona Susan Power’s A Council of Dolls? How accurate and effective is the paper generated by Chat GPT? Your thesis must be 1-3 sentences, take a clear stand, be subject to disagreement.
4. Start writing: Defend and prove your thesis statement in the body of the paper by writing several paragraphs. Each paragraph contains three components:
a. a claim (one assertion about the accuracy/quality of the ChatGPT essay), an assertion that proves your thesis. Each paragraph’s first sentence should make one strong claim.),
b. evidence from both the ChatGPT essay and Power’s book (Evidence is details/specifics, examples, facts from both the ChatGPT essay and Power’s book, all followed with proper in-text citations),
c. and in-depth analysis (your explanation/interpretation/analysis of the evidence). What to do while writing:
1. Maintain focus. Each paragraph makes one claim about the ChatGPT essay that supports your thesis. Everything in the paper proves the thesis statement.
2. Organize your paper effectively and use MLA to cite all evidence. a. Each paragraph begins with a claim. Within the paragraph, support/prove the claim with a
balance of specifics from the ChatGPT essay, A Council of Dolls, and your analysis. b. Each paragraph should use at least three details, specifics, or examples from the Chat GPT
essay and Power’s book as support. This means you would have a minimum of three in-text citations per paragraph.
i. You must integrate material from the ChatGPT essay and Power’s book using summary, paraphrase, and direct quotations, all followed with proper in-text citations.
ii. Do not only use quoted material from the essay and A Council of Dolls You must show that you can paraphrase and summarize as well. Paraphrases and summaries are followed with an in-text citation too.
iii. Do not write about only one example per paragraph.
3. Think critically: Show your critical thinking. I want to read it! Each paragraph should be 50% evidence and 50% your analysis of the evidence.
4. Maintain academic language and tone and edit carefully: Maintain third person. No “I think” (first person) or “you” (second person).
The final draft of your paper must
✓ be a minimum of 3 complete pages, not including the Works Cited page. (4-6 pages is ideal.) o Papers must be developed at least three full pages to earn a C. o This is not a five-paragraph essay. Write as many claims/paragraphs as you need to prove
your thesis and illustrate depth. (I’m not a fan of a conclusion paragraph that just
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summarizes what you wrote in a short paper like this. Instead, just transition into your final claim and paragraph with a transition like this: The final way that the ChatGPT essay ineffectively explores the theme of displacement is . . . . .”)
✓ have an interesting title & introductory paragraph that includes an attention-getter, book title (italicized) and author’s full name, title of the Chat GPT essay (in quotation marks) and the thesis
✓ include a focused thesis statement that takes a clear and reasonable stand, shows depth, and is subject to disagreement
✓ illustrate depth of critical thinking and thorough analysis
✓ remain focused and organized
✓ contain organized paragraphs, each including all three components: a claim, evidence, and analysis
✓ use appropriate textual evidence in the form of specific details/examples, facts, and quoted material from the sources (shared via quotations, paraphrases, and summary in each paragraph)
✓ have coherent and academic language and style
✓ be stylistic and carefully edited, maintaining third-person point-of-view.
✓ use proper MLA format (Times 12-point font, one-inch margins, no extra space between
paragraphs, etc. See your WR Handbook) and use proper MLA citation:
o Works Cited: Include a Works Cited page that cites the Chat GPT generated paper and
Mona Susan Power’s A Council of Dolls. See the Works Cited handout in Paper #2 folder in
Content.
o In-Text Citations: Use information from both sources in your essay and follow all details,
facts, examples, (whether summarized, paraphrased, or directly quoted) with MLA in-text
citations.
▪ Any evidence from the ChatGPT article would be followed with in-text citations
like this (“Displacement”).
• In-text citations for longer titles are shortened, which is why only the first
word of the ChatGPT essay title is included in the in-text citation.
▪ Any evidence from Power’s book would be followed with an in-text citation noting
the author’s name and the page number like this (Power 122).
Note: See the Paper #2 Grading/Feedback Sheet available in Content in the Paper #2 folder for the specific rubric I will use to respond to your final draft. About Plagiarism—Don’t do it!
– Use only two sources: the Chat GPT generated paper Prof. Riehl has provided and Mona Susan Power’s A Council of Dolls for this paper.
– Do not plagiarize. Do not run the ChatGPT essay again through ChatGPT to “fix” it. (That is not what this assignment is asking you to do.)
– Do not rewrite what Chat GPT has generated. You’re writing a separate essay that analyzes the accuracy and effectiveness of the Chat GPT essay and asserts how it could be improved.
– Paper drafts will be submitted to Turnitin.com, which will also generate an originality report. o The only parts of your paper that should show up as a direct match are when you quote
from the ChatGPT-generated essay or Power’s novel A Council of Dolls. o After any fact, detail, or example from the ChatGPT essay or the novel, include a proper
in-text citation. o Put any excerpts of three or more words in a row in quotation marks and follow them with
a proper in-text citation to avoid plagiarism.
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– Plagiarized papers or papers that use ChatGPT to alter/fix/write the paper will earn no credit, and I will report students to the Dean.
The audience: The audience is me—Professor Riehl—and your classmates, who are reading your paper
to determine the accuracy and quality of the ChatGPT essay.
Due: Final Draft is due before 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22 in Assignments in “Paper #2 Final Draft
Only” in D2L.
This is the prompt Prof. Riehl gave Chat GPT:
“Write an essay evaluating the theme of displacement in Mona Susan Power's A Council of Dolls. Include a strong attention-getter, thesis, and paragraphs that each begin with a claim about displacement in the book. Each body paragraph must use at least three pieces of evidence from the book, such as facts, examples, details, and quotations. Use proper MLA in-text citations and a Works Cited page..”
Note: Prof. Riehl has changed some formatting elements, such as making the essay double-spaced.
ChatGPT’s essay:
Displacement in Mona Susan Power's A Council of Dolls
In the intricate tapestry of human experience, few themes resonate as deeply as displacement—the
feeling of being uprooted, disoriented, and alienated from one’s origins or identity. Mona Susan Power’s
*A Council of Dolls* powerfully explores this theme through the stories of Native American women
whose lives are marked by both physical and emotional dislocation. As Power delves into the complex
lives of her characters, she crafts a poignant commentary on the enduring impact of displacement within
indigenous communities. This essay will evaluate how *A Council of Dolls* uses displacement to
illuminate the struggles of identity, cultural heritage, and personal resilience.
First, displacement in *A Council of Dolls* profoundly affects the characters’ sense of identity.
Power portrays this through her characters' constant grappling with their cultural roots and personal
histories. For example, the protagonist, a Native American woman named in the book, is depicted as being
caught between two worlds: her traditional Native American heritage and the modern, often hostile
external society (Power 43). This internal conflict is underscored by her struggle to maintain her cultural
practices amidst societal pressures. Power writes, "She felt like a ghost in her own life, wandering through
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the remnants of a culture that seemed both familiar and alien" (Power 56). This sense of being a "ghost"
highlights the protagonist's disconnection from her heritage and her struggle to reconcile her identity with
the expectations of the surrounding world.
Furthermore, displacement in the novel is vividly illustrated through the characters’ experiences of
losing their cultural heritage. Power uses the motif of dolls as a symbol of this loss, with each doll
representing a piece of the characters' past that is threatened by assimilation and cultural erasure. For
instance, one character reflects on a doll from her childhood that has become a "memento of a world that
no longer exists" (Power 78). This doll, once a source of comfort and connection to her past, now
embodies the painful reality of cultural loss and the struggle to preserve one’s heritage in the face of
overwhelming change. Power’s depiction of these dolls not only emphasizes the characters’ displacement
but also serves as a critique of the broader societal forces that contribute to the erosion of indigenous
cultures.
Lastly, Power illustrates how displacement affects the characters’ resilience and sense of agency.
Despite the profound challenges posed by their displacement, the characters in *A Council of Dolls*
demonstrate remarkable strength and adaptability. For example, one character's determination to revive
traditional ceremonies and pass on cultural knowledge to the next generation underscores her resilience
(Power 120). She states, "I carry our traditions in my heart, and no amount of change will ever take that
away" (Power 123). This statement encapsulates the character's refusal to let displacement define her;
instead, she channels her experiences into a renewed commitment to her cultural heritage. Power’s
portrayal of such characters reveals that while displacement can be disorienting, it also fosters a profound
strength and an unwavering commitment to one’s identity and values.
In conclusion, Mona Susan Power’s *A Council of Dolls* provides a nuanced exploration of
displacement through its rich depiction of identity struggles, cultural loss, and personal resilience. Through
her vivid characters and symbolic motifs, Power illustrates how displacement can disrupt but also
strengthen one’s connection to their heritage and sense of self. The novel ultimately serves as a powerful
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reminder of the enduring impact of displacement on indigenous communities and the ways in which
individuals navigate and resist the forces that seek to undermine their cultural identities.
Works Cited
Power, Mona Susan. *A Council of Dolls*. Penguin Books, 2024.
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English 1121, College Writing and Critical Reading
Paper #2
Paper #2 ChatGPT Analysis Feedback/Grading Sheet
This paper: Excellent Competent / Acceptable Needs improvement has a catchy/relevant title x x x x
has an interesting introduction including an
attention-getter, book title (italicized) and author’s full name,
title of the Chat GPT essay (in quotation marks)
and the thesis x x x x
has a focused thesis statement that takes a clear
and reasonable stand, shows depth, and is subject
to disagreement x x x x
is well-organized between paragraphs and within
paragraphs/uses strong transitions x x x x
has a specific claim that takes an evaluative stand
in each paragraph and is appropriately placed x x x x
uses appropriate textual evidence in the form of
specific details/examples, facts, and quoted material
from the sources (shared via quotations, paraphrases,
and summary in each paragraph) x x x x
illustrates depth of critical thinking and
thorough analysis x x x x
uses academic language/tone
and has advanced style x x x x
contains no error (grammar,
spelling, or punctuation) x x x x
all details/facts/examples from sources that are
quoted, paraphrased, and summarized in the paper
are properly followed with a correct in-text citation x x x x
has a correct Works Cited page
and follows MLA format x x x x
I expect papers also to
illustrate extensive, comprehensive revision yes somewhat no
meet the length requirement yes no
be turned in on time in D2L yes no
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Works Cited
“Displacement in Mona Susan Power’s A Council of Dolls.” ChatGPT, GPT-4, OpenAI, 14 Aug. 2024, chat.openai.com/chat.
Power, Mona. A Council of Dolls: A Novel. Mariner, 2023.
Notes:
1. Your Works Cited page is a required component of your paper. It gives credit to the sources used in the paper and must be included to avoid plagiarism.
2. It includes your last name and the page number in the right, upper corner like every other page in your paper.
3. The Works Cited page must start on its own page and follow the above formatting. See your WR Handbook page 206 for an example of a properly formatted Works Cited page.
4. A Works Cited page means that any sources listed on the Works Cited page are sources you have used examples, specifics, facts, etc. from in the paper and you have followed that information with an in-text citation in the body of the paper to give credit to the author and to refer the reader to the works cited page.
a. The in-text citations match what comes first for each source here on the Works Cited page:
i. (“Displacement”).
ii. (Power 114).
b. See page 135 in your WR Handbook at the top under “List of MLA in-text citation models” for more about in-text citations.
5. You may copy and paste the two citations above to use them in your draft of Paper #2. Please note that often when you copy and paste, you may lose some formatting and italics, so be fix those as you paste these citations into your draft.
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Transcript for Video about Paper #2—Chat GPT and Mona Susan Power
Hello, everyone. I wanted to make a video to kind of walk through the paper number two assignment sheet with you. Now, some of you, I'm sure, are reading the assignment sheet and not having many questions, but some of you might have some questions, and you might be the kind of learner that benefits from hearing about an assignment as well as just reading it yourself.
So I'm going into materials. And then content. And I'm going to folder number two, which is where paper number two, A Council of Dolls, and all of the related content are here. Now, hopefully, you have been following your course syllabus carefully each week, so you are reading everything that is being assigned about this book.
So I'm going to go into the paper number two assignment sheet, and I'm just going to kind walk through it with you. So this is the second paper of the semester. It's worth 19% of the course grade. As you know, it's quite different from the first assignment. So, the assignment is for this paper, you will analyze the accuracy and quality of a Chat GPT generated essay about Mona Susan Power's novel, A Council of Dolls, and use Power's book to illustrate how the Chat GPT essay could be improved. I have provided the Chat GPT essay, and you can see the whole thing at the end of this assignment. If you scroll down, you'll see I copied and pasted that essay in here. And I show you, see where it's highlighted.
This is the prompt Professor Riehl gave Chat GPT. I told it to write an essay evaluating the theme of displacement in Mona Susan Power's A Council of Dolls. I told it to include a strong attention getter, thesis, and paragraphs that each begin with a claim about displacement in the book. Each body paragraph must use at least three pieces of evidence from the book, such as facts, examples, details, and quotations, and it must use proper MLA in-text citations and a Works Cited page. What you see here under the green where it says Chat GPT essay is the essay that Chat GPT generated. The only thing that I've changed here is that I changed the formatting a little bit, so I made it double spaced, so that it follows MLA formatting. Otherwise, this is what Chat GPT wrote about.
Now, some of you might think, well, why displacement? I think it would be more interesting to write about the importance of women or the role of silence in the novel or generational trauma. You know, many papers could be about those things. This is just the prompt that I gave Chat GPT, so we are focusing on this essay and this theme of displacement. So you don't have to write about any of those other things in the paper.
Let's go back up. To the start of the paper assignment, and it says, you will write a focused, organized, analytical, developed, carefully worded and edited paper that uses MLA format, has a Works Cited page, and includes proper in-text citations, so that's what you're going to do. Questions to guide your analysis. This is what you can think about these first couple of questions. When you answer these questions, you have a thesis statement. How well does Chat GPT analyze the theme of displacement in Mona Susan Power's novel, A Council of Dolls? How accurate and effective is the paper generated by Chat GPT, and how could it be improved?
So, you might think, Okay, well, the essay does a couple of things well, but it does a couple of things terribly. So what do I write? Your thesis statement can be one to three sentences long, and you're going to state it clearly without using “I.” The Chat GPT essay titled, and let's jump ahead because you're going to tell us what the title is. I'm going to go back to that essay, and we see the title right here. “Displacement in Mona Susan Power's A Council of Dolls" does a good job of X, Y, and Z, but fails to analyze the novel effectively because . . . and then you say why. Right? I'm not going to tell you exactly what to write. This is where you are using your own analysis, and you're going to be able to do this if you have read the book carefully. Okay, so you're already going to be thinking about specifics from the book, and that will help you know if the Chat GPT essay is accurate and effective. You're going to use evidence from both the Chat GPT essay and Power's novel to support your thesis and claims. What type of paper is this? This is an assignment that asks you to write a version of a literary textual analysis; an analysis carefully studies and examines a text. It's a type of argumentative essay where you persuade a reader of your assertion about the text. So how does this help you become a critical thinker and better writer? Well, good writing requires critical thinking and convincing writing. It requires that you read carefully to use your critical thinking skills to figure out, did that Chat GPT essay? Is it good? Is it high quality? Does it do an effective job and is it accurate? Right? Your careful reading of A Council of Dolls is essential to figuring that out.
You must convey your analysis in a clear, focused, and organized paper. It requires—sorry, I'm trying to highlight this, but it's not always working really well—it requires that you use sources, both the Chat GPT generated essay and the novel as evidence, and to cite that evidence appropriately according to MLA format. MLA format stands for Modern Language Association.
I walk you through the steps of how to approach this assignment. So first, obviously, carefully read the Chat GPT essay at the end of this assignment sheet, and you should be finished with A Council of Dolls, which we're finishing our discussion on this week. You're going to examine what the Chat GPT essay. Think about Power's novel, take notes. So here are some examples of questions to consider as you brainstorm. Which aspects of the assignment does Chat GPT do well? Which parts of the Chat GPT essay are accurate and of high quality? So maybe one of your paragraphs will start with “The Chat GPT essay does a great job of …,” and then you finish that sentence. Then you're going to build a paragraph to prove that claim you have about the Chat GPT essay. So you'd use maybe some specifics from the Chat GPT essay, and follow them with an in-text citation. Maybe you're going to point out that it used some specifics from the book really accurately. And so you might mention where those are in the book and follow that with an in-text citation.
Maybe you have a couple of paragraphs that each focus on different ways that the Chat GPT essay failed. Maybe you're finding some inaccuracies. Maybe you're like, What? I don't see that in the book, right? If you see things that are “hallucinated”—That's the term that's used when Chat GPT and other AI makes things up because there's not enough information online and elsewhere to, kind of, you know, scrape the information from—then you're going to point that out. You would mention those specifics in the Chat GPT essay, follow them with an in-text citation. And you would point out also, what could it have pointed to in the book that would have made it a more effective essay.
Ultimately, you're doing two things, really. You're pointing out what works and what doesn't work in the Chat GPT essay. And any time you're saying what doesn't work, you're going to need to be pointing out what it could have done. You're showing what you know better than Chat GPT does about Mona Susan Power's book. Think about the Chat GPT's essay's intro, thesis paragraph, all of those things.
And then we talked a little bit about that thesis statement, right? Your thesis statement is one to three sentences. It takes a clear stand, and it's subject to disagreement. That goes at the end of your opening paragraph for the paper. Your opening paragraph leads up to your thesis statement that comes at the end of paragraph one. Earlier in that paragraph, you can use some kind of an attention getter. You can let us know what book you're writing about, so you're going to use A Council of Dolls, italicized, because that's the title of the book. Include the author's full name on the first reference. You'll also include the title of the Chat GPT essay in quotation marks because that's an essay. Then, you're going to start writing. Defend and prove your thesis statement in the body of the paper by writing several paragraphs. Each paragraph has three components, and you can see these highlighted in red here. The first is a claim. So each paragraph in the body of the paper is going to start with you making one assertion about the accuracy and quality of the Chat GPT essay, an assertion that helps prove your thesis. Second, then, in that paragraph, you're going to try to find evidence from the Chat GPT essay and Power's book, the evidence is details, specific examples, and facts, all followed with a proper in text citation. So I expect you to be using specifics from both the essay and the book in each paragraph in your paper.
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