Does ChatGPT Write Better Essays Than Students?

Here is one example from ChatGPT, using the prompt

Here is the generated essay (I highlighted some keyphrases in both stories, which I think are the indicators of the flow.)

I agree. This is very good writing, regardless of whether the story is convincing or not. And, if you want to read another essay generated with the same prompt

I was amused by the beginning of the story.

Also, I believe it is just a coincidence that both stories have a character named Sarah, and don’t think ChatGPT has any preference in human names.

I can copy and paste more examples here, but these two are good enough to make my points:

At this point, you may have realized there’s more to this story than will fit in one post.

To avoid the risk of getting bored, I summarize the main observation from the analysis I did in the past week: essays generated by ChatGPT not only have similar structures, but are often simpler structures than the ones written by students.

In the next post, I will provide more details on the analysis I did, and some of my thoughts on how to use ChatGPT (or, in general, text generation tools) for education.

Stay tuned.

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