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AI chatbots will level the global communicative playing field

February 10, 2023 / 4.0 skills, AI, AI tools, AI writing assistant, articulate academic, Communication skills, digital writing assistants, English as a Foreign Language, English as a Lingua Franca, Language proficiency, Non-native Professionals, Published articles, Training skills, Writing training / Nigel P. Daly / Leave a Comment

ChatGPT can be used to write emails, wirte summaries for research, and even write reports. It can help EFL or ESL or ELF speakers kill three birds with one stone: 1. It will naturally rewite a text and remove any incorrect English; 2. It will replace awkward phrases with natural sounding ones; and 3. It can create the appropriate tone, like formal, casual, caring, serious, apologetic, and even funny. ChatGPT can give the power of perfect English to non-English speakers, and this can democratize high-stakes international communications in the business and research fields.

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Insights into the usefulness of machine grammar/spell checkers for improving research writing

A comparison analysis of Human copy editor vs machine grammar/spell checker on key sections of a research manuscript. Many errors in the original non-native English speaker’s writing were not found by Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Ginger, Grammarly, and Trinka. Longer and difficult to read sentences were not identified by the machine language checkers.