MLA Style: Writing & Citation

• Use AI as a tool to help you create a focus for your research, to create an outline, to organize information, to create keyword/search terms lists to use in database searches, and to proof for grammatical/spelling errors in your paper. Do not use AI as reliable source information to back up your ideas unless you vet that information through research.
• For transparency and academic integrity, if you choose to use AI for finding and using information in your paper, be sure that you acknowledge your use of it. Include a statement indicating that AI has been used; specify which tool(s) was used; describe how the information was generated (a description, an image, a text revision); include the prompt(s) used; and explain how the output from the prompt(s) was used in your paper/project.

 “Describe the symbolism of the green light in the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald”

                prompt. ChatGPT, 13 Feb. version, OpenAI, 8 Mar. 2023, chat.openai.com/chat.

Example Acknowledgement statement:

I acknowledge the use of [insert AI system(s) and link] to [specific use of generative artificial intelligence]. The prompts used include [list of prompts]. The output from these prompts was used to [explain use].