{"id":17620,"date":"2025-03-19T12:23:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T19:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/?p=17620"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:10:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:10:38","slug":"best-practices-for-prompting-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librarywp.whatcom.edu\/guides\/best-practices-for-prompting-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use ChatGPT and other Artificial Intelligence Tools as a College Student&#8230;WITHOUT CHEATING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ChatGPT, or Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, is an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered language model developed by OpenAI that can generate human-like text based on context and past conversations.&nbsp; ChatGPT enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language used, making it an emergent technology in academia, research, and various professional fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Some functions of ChatGPT for students are:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Summarizing lengthy articles that don\u2019t have an abstract for you to view.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Generating a topic to write about.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Peer-review or editing practice (by editing AI generated sample).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Replicating a back-and-forth discussion about an assigned reading.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Revising your own writing for a class assignment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Summarizing the key points of an assignment\/getting clarity from a syllabus that is confusing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The library has a <a href=\"https:\/\/fod.infobase.com\/p_Login.aspx?loggedOut=1&amp;e=8&amp;rUrl=%2fp_Search.aspx%3flevel%3dSubject%26sid%3d2836%26u%3dwhatcom%26st%3dadv%26rd%3dtitle%26sortby%3dCopyright_Date%26type%3dbrowse\">database of films<\/a> about how to use artificial intelligence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VR9X9kRdgbk\">This short video <\/a>describes strategies to use for getting better results from a variety of AI tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI can be a really powerful tool, but there is a fine line between using AI and cheating, which is against WCC\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatcom.edu\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/10568\/638330646359400000\">Student Code of Conduct<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Citation Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MLA <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/style.mla.org\/citing-generative-ai\/\">How do I cite generative AI in MLA style? | MLA Style Center<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Citation Template<\/strong>: \u201cstate the prompt used for generating text\u201d prompt. Version of AI tool, OpenAI, date content was generated, ChatGPT URL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>APA <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apastyle.apa.org\/blog\/how-to-cite-chatgpt\">How to cite ChatGPT (apa.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Citation Template<\/strong>: OpenAI. (year). <em>ChatGPT <\/em>(version) [Large language model]. 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