In this 30-minute webinar, participants will learn how to use Writefull (www.writefull.com) ethically and responsibly to support scholarly writing. Participants will also learn about Writefull's unique benefits: that it has its own Small Language Model uniquely trained on published papers and linguistic research, that it is positioned to help users follow proper scholarly writing conventions while retaining control over what it produces, and that it takes a strong data-privacy-first approach.

The use of AI detection tools in academia is under scrutiny. Issues flagged by the scholarly community include that AI detection tools are fundamentally unreliable and inconsistent, that they are biased against second-language English authors, and that academia does not yet know how to reliably deal with claims of AI misuse. On the other hand, some believe that the use of AI detection tools is simply one of a range of quality assurance strategies, and that AI detectors can be used to teach academic writing skills in an environment where policy is learning-centred. In this 30-minute webinar, Kirstin Krauss draws on case studies to show how AI detectors can complement proper quality assessment processes and help teach academic writing skills.